The most absurdly up-armored tank type so far in Russia’s 45-month wider war on Ukraine is, with its layers of improvised anti-drone armor, ugly as sin. Fitted with a front-mounted mine-roller and wrapped in layers of explosive reactive armor and anti-drone chains, cage armor and wire spines, a hedgehog tank — like its cousins the turtle tank and porcupine tank — weighs tons more than its engine and transmission can reliably handle. It’s a huge issue while fording one of the many rivers that thread across the 700-mile no-man’s-land.
Author: David Axe
Published at: 2025-11-06 22:20:30
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