While adult turtles need large tanks, hatchling turtles can be temporarily kept in turtle tank setups designed specifically ...

The Ukraine war is doing for the evolution of weapons and tactics in modern war what conflicts like the Spanish Civil War did ...

Russia has built a new version of the "Turtle Tank" with some new features on it. In a video, a Russian soldier shows a foldable metal bed inside the structure. The constant presence of drones has ...

Desperate to clear mines in the no-man’s-land between Russian and Ukrainian positions—and equally desperate to protect the mine-clearers from Ukraine’s explosive drones—the Russian military devised a ...

Footage from eastern Ukraine has revealed one of the war’s strangest armored vehicles yet: a Russian tank encased in a massive, homemade metal shell. Nicknamed the “turtle tank” by Ukrainian troops, ...

The turtle is not exactly the most ferocious of reptiles, and so calling a tank a "turtle" doesn't seem like it would inspire fear in the hearts of your enemies on a battlefield. Which is why it's not ...

Summary and Key Points: The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced both Ukrainian and Russian forces to innovate due to severe shortages in weapons systems. One such Russian innovation is the “turtle tank, ...

The third Russian turtle tank. Russia’s “turtle tank”—an old T-72 with a drone-resisting armored shell installed on top of it—wasn’t a one-off. The Russians clearly are building a host of turtle tanks ...

IN LATE 2021 Russia began welding metal cages over the turrets of its tanks, in an attempt to protect them from attack. The cages proved ineffective—some Western analysts jokingly dubbed them ...