Russian 'tortoise shell' destroyed by Ukrainian drones in Krasnogorovka. The tank was equipped with improvised anti-drone armor, probably made of steel plates.
It survived its first combat mission when dropping off infantry and then returned to its hangar. Russian tanks store much of their ammunition in an unprotected carousel in the turret. For Russian tanks, the turret's armor was probably added to protect against Javelin missiles from Ukraine, which can fly over a target and then dive-bomb their-charge shaped-charge target into a warhead into a target. Russian army forced to provide much of its 125-millimeter armor in 2022 - just a few days before the invasion of Ukraine. The armor, which itself is constructed like a rolling hangar, is the current technical embodiment of the “cope cage” – at the beginning of the Ukrainian war, these cages appeared as improvised roofs for tanks. The rotation angle of the tower was also reduced to less than two thirds.