If you’re taking on a tank with gunfire, you’ll notice a problem real quick. The barbs there are meant to detonate anti tank rockets and missiles, too. The best way to take these out is mines or armor of your own.
Antitank missiles or heavy machine gun fire will absolutely mess this kind of armor up bad after a certain point, it all just ends up catching on fire and blinding/trapping the crew inside especially if the armor doesn’t have situational awareness or unimpeded turret travel to respond to and suppress incoming threats. That being said I am sure Ukraine is a lot more thoughtful how it deploys these in general and I am sure there are definitely appliations for this kind of armor under heavy assault conditions against thick drone walls. My point is I just don’t think this is representative of the future of armor design as when it comes to armored vehicles everything always comes down to mobility, mobility, mobility and every successful armored vehicle is just barely light enough to not become obsolete on a dynamic battlefield. There is little chance in my eyes that the future of armored vehicles is a commitment to doubling down on bulkier and bulkier defensive armor rather than leveraging other advantages and capabilities to create survivability for the crew. This isn’t to say I think armor is obsolete, what I am saying is that poorly manuverable armor was already hopelessly obsolete a long time ago before drones even entered the picture.
Major “NCD” vibes.
Also extremely practical. Every military on Earth needs to be taking notes.
Doesn’t seem so great against gunfire 😅
It’s a tank.
It’ll do fine against gunfire
Tanks usually have armor. This one I can see through
You’re right, you can see through it.
You can see through it so well that you can see the normal armored tank underneath.
This isn’t a new type of tank. They just attached a cage on top of an existing tank.
If you’re taking on a tank with gunfire, you’ll notice a problem real quick. The barbs there are meant to detonate anti tank rockets and missiles, too. The best way to take these out is mines or armor of your own.
Antitank missiles or heavy machine gun fire will absolutely mess this kind of armor up bad after a certain point, it all just ends up catching on fire and blinding/trapping the crew inside especially if the armor doesn’t have situational awareness or unimpeded turret travel to respond to and suppress incoming threats. That being said I am sure Ukraine is a lot more thoughtful how it deploys these in general and I am sure there are definitely appliations for this kind of armor under heavy assault conditions against thick drone walls. My point is I just don’t think this is representative of the future of armor design as when it comes to armored vehicles everything always comes down to mobility, mobility, mobility and every successful armored vehicle is just barely light enough to not become obsolete on a dynamic battlefield. There is little chance in my eyes that the future of armored vehicles is a commitment to doubling down on bulkier and bulkier defensive armor rather than leveraging other advantages and capabilities to create survivability for the crew. This isn’t to say I think armor is obsolete, what I am saying is that poorly manuverable armor was already hopelessly obsolete a long time ago before drones even entered the picture.