.IN LATE 2021 Russia started welding metal cages over the belfries of its own containers, in a try to guard all of them coming from strike. The crates showed unproductive– some Western side analysts amusingly called all of them “emotional-support armour”. Now Russia has actually offered an even more extensive retrofit, utilizing steel sheet to totally enclose a number of its own storage tanks.
The new armour has earned the vehicles the nickname “tortoise storage tanks”. Will kitting them out by doing this really help?