russian "artisans" thought it would be a good idea to equip their advanced T-90M "Proryv" tanks with slat armor cages, also called "barbecue grills" because of their zero effectiveness as a means of protection. Notably, such "grills" were welded upon the "Nakidka" protection complex.
According to the source, this photo was taken in the Belgorod region of the russian federation, apparently, at the time when russians were deploying reinforcements to the occupied Kharkiv region in Ukraine. And though we have already seen similar "tuning" for the tank previously, now we are confident it’s more of a trend than a sole case, and this fact says a lot about the state of affairs inside the russian army.
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The russians themselves seem to realize that adding the "grills" will have as much as zero advantage in combat, but still continue with this practice which starts to look more like a "cargo cult". Considering the thickness of the bars on these cages, the crews likely didn’t even care how effective this supplement would be.
But why do that if you already have the "one-of-a-kind" "Nakidka" camouflage complex which can make a tank "less visible" in thermal and radio spectrum, i.e. protect from a Javelin missile at least. Moreover, the "grill" actually makes it worse because it gives away the thermal signature of the vehicle.
Once again, if tank crews of such advanced and complex vehicles as T-90M turn to "grill welding", then it means they don’t understand the capabilities of their tanks, and the means of active protection in particular. It somewhat explains why they gave up their T-90M to the Ukrainian soldiers' hands – because of not understanding what a valuable vehicle they abandoned.
All mentioned earlier provides a vivid picture of the low qualification of the russian contract army, not to mention the mobilized concripts. Even the russians complain in their social media that such a bad training of tank operators made tens of years of active protection development for armored vehicles spent by the domestic defense industry.
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