Sustainable development armor ?
I guess this T-90A was parked in the wrong place …
H.P.
Because its a trench warfare type of war. IEDs are used in insurgency warfare.
Okay, but tanks move on roads and mines/IEDs are great for roads. And that shell ought to make explosions from below more effective.
Looks like a vehicle that was parked on the wrong side of Detroit.
Yes, but you need a easy way to get to the road and if it’s behind enemy lines that’s not easy.
There are several considerations when emplacing IEDs. For one thing you’ve got to have the security around you to be able to have time to dig a hole, place it in the ground and camouflage it correctly.
But I think as bad as the roads are in Ukraine, they can’t be nearly as bad as the ones that I encountered in northern Iraq. You can tell when somebody’s put an IED in a paved road. Or you should be able to.
That on top of the fact that I never planned our routes on roads, when I could help it. That made it pretty difficult to predict where to place an IED. God knows they tried though.
What about the non-IED?
Make it look like a hole has been dug and covered up, maybe a loose wire on the ground.
Again, if you’ve got time for that… You could use decoys to channel vehicles into kill zones. But with the availability of drones these days, I don’t want to be that guy carrying around a shovel and wire.
You could use one of these, but they have met similar fates to the rest of the Rus vehicles:
Another reason there are probably fewer IED"s I forgot to mention - Most of the ones we saw in Iraq were made from mortar rounds and artillery shells. There were some with anti-tank mines but they were usually use to initiate a much larger IED. We even saw some made from HME, which really bothered me - getting flipped into a canal and drowning was not how I wanted to go out. Very common in the north.
In Ukraine, the UA and the Russcists don’t seem to have any shortage of actual mines.
Yep, the green manhole cover. 
S,o they need to mount wire guided TOW’s on a drone. It is wire guided, not radio signal so ECM would have to be really powerful to take out the TOW as far as I know.
I’m wondering if that one isn’t supposed to be camouflaged as a house. It’s certainly an odd choice of colors. And if they’re doing this on a regular basis now, maybe those faux tanks will be taken more seriously as you can’t really see what’s underneath that well. In fact, the tracks on this one sure look a ligttle weird.
It does look like it might be a decoy, idk.
Saw a video of one, it seemed to be just driving around the area attracting attention, there were multiple strikes around it, at first it was followed be a conventional tank but then it just carried on driving by itself going nowhere in particular, so the decoy theory might have weight
Looks to be more an ECM mount than cupola similar to this one
It is an ECM mount, as described on multiple videos available on YouTube.
