It’s an excellent channel and I often suggest people should watch videos here if it fits with what’s being discussed

thanks--very kind of you to say. I always try to keep the vids short because I hate videos with pointless padding just to get the length up

@@suchomimus9921 we notice and appreciate the way you go about your business. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦. ✌🏼

I like this channel. It's great, and it's informative, but it's not always up to date. It can't be given the type of reporting that it is. That said, I prefer long form videos, which I hope answers your question. I used to listen to 3hr "the enforcer" live streams until it became a cult like echo chamber.

​@@suchomimus9921Your channel is rather unique in that way. Great work.

Very salient point. But I wonder if Russia really can replace a destroyed tank for a million dollars. I could be wrong but I'm guessing that even the refurbishment of old tanks from storage costs more. (Advanced T-14 Armatas, built from scratch and made in very small production runs, cost an estimated $5m-$7.1m in 2022.)

Bro, you don’t think Ukraine is losing equipment to drones? 😂

@@Jimmy-Legs Nobody disputes that. What is different is that Ukraine integrates their attack options much better and with far more accuracy with consequent kill rates way higher. Added to this is the partisan effect on Russian held territory which gives the Ukrainian an added edge with superior intel.

I dont think a drone with thermals is only 500

@@Roger-go6jc How do you know that bro?

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The cage means 2 or 3 drones not 1 are needed. So yes very effective, but not assured protection.

Only slightly more economical, trading 2 or 3 $500 drones with a half million dollar tank, instead of 1

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It could be some kind of fake in order to fool crew they are safe or Ukrainians from engaging.

​@@TheFrewahIf you cut one open, there'd be a rock glued into it.

​​@@TheFrewahIt wouldn't surprise me if that's true, but it's hilarious they ever thought that would work. It's like putting a one foot scarecrow on there, they're not gonna see it til they're close enough to destroy it.

@@Sam-Cain I love your scarecrow analogy and you have a point. In war, it serves you well if you know some physics and also if you have some amount of imagination.

They can only jam so many frequencies. Ukraine can just change frequency ranges or use frequency hopping. Jamming is a complex business. Not sure Russia can adapt quickly enough to Ukraine changing things up.

More like 80 drones. Mine plows/rollers are expensive.

if the invaders did not have changed their modus operandi, how did they gain, relatively speaking, the upper hand at the moment?

Russian using drones them self 2 ,maybe you did not notice but Ukraine windrow all western tanks from frontline mostly becase off drones

Rus is still having an overwhelming advantage in armour and heavy munition, compared to Ukr. Thats why they are still using the same tactics and gaining ground.

Ok lets see how ukrainians counter attack without armored vehicles, buddy

Well, you may have a point. But did it work well? I think not. Maybe these tanks receive really crude jammers as modern ones may be expensive to make and where some components are no longer available.

@@TheFrewah honestly supersized they work at all. let alone have enough to go around. i imagine the construction is very crude.

The second strike disabled the track/roadwheels - not the engine.

It was a simple jammer that could probably cover just few know signals, we dont have info of how many drones were lost until they found the correct unjammed radio signal. Other more expensive vehicles use more complex jammers.

@@hansybarra I suppose it could be a magnetron from a stolen microwave oven

A square frame doesnt block anythign, that jammer wasnt working or it was jaming other signals.

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Yeah, it's a constant game of adaptation.

It could be a decoy meant to make the crew feel safe or discourage Ukrainians from approaching it

I think it’s possible to teach cheap AI to recognise a tank and then find out where defence is weak. If so, there’s nothing to jam, the drone is autonomous

@@TheFrewah The issue is that this adds to the cost of the drone. The advantage that the Ukranian drones have is that they're cheap - and used in large numbers.

It should be a plastic cage if the jammer is real just like radars on yachts that have a cover

​@@TheFrewah Agreed. It seems obvious to me that a Faraday cage would defeat the purpose. (Unless there's an additional aspect which I'm unaware of.) (The kind of cover you refer to, transparent to radio waves, is a _radome)._

Maybe antennas and nothing more to fool the crew they are ”safe” and that commanders ”care” about them. Who knows?

That's an excellent point. I can't imagine getting a signal in and out to drone that close to an active jammer.

Of course, it could be a decoy meant to fool Ukrainians, to make them think this tank actually can jam if they try

Did you mean the wanky tanky?

Or they could be actual jammers. Just ones that are out of date. The Russians operate in a bureaucratic 'top down' manner so the jammers are made to a specific design. This design is then shipped out to the entire army. However, it - at best - takes several months from determination of the need to the equipment reaching the troops. The Ukrainians are innovative and decentralized. This means that they can create countermeasures to the Russian jammers and have then in the hands of the troops in a couple of weeks. So, the Russians will have brief windows where their jammers work then have to wait for the next iteration of jammers to be developed, manufactured and deployed.

NO , it's a drone clearing vehicle.

For real??

What are "Frankies"?

@@namesurname624 ,, Frankenstein " ; the usual way to name RF`s uncoventionel new creations to prevent hit by drones !

@@wolfgangemmerich7552 innovation backwards, destination fucked. Shout out Ozzie.

@@d.l.d.l.8140 Its importand the Rf tankers trust in this Frankies !

I didn’t know that. Interesting! Where did you find out? You need a TPM which I think could be removed once you have physical access

@@TheFrewah THere are forums for that ,i dont know maybe for latest one because i dont have them but for mavic 2 is ease as any android phone with unlocked boot loader

@@dzonikg No doubt. Tpm chips are optional for Raspberry Pi computers. Do you remember where you heard this?

Prevent the crew from getting out of the tank too easily.

@@h.a.9880 The russians kept spreading the disinfo about Ukrainians welding their crew members into the tanks... then went ahead and did pretty much exactly just that. Just goes to show that everything that russia says is typically classic projection.

Provide copium.

They were meant to prevent drones from entering the space between the turret and the rest of the tank. All you need is a different payload

@@h.a.9880 The funny thing is how russia was claiming that Ukraine was welding tanks shut... and then russia started doing pretty much exactly just that. Just goes to show that what russia says is almost always projection.

T-62.

Doesn't do anything against a modern (from T-55 onwards) tank with seals. It worked against WW2 tanks because it could pour into the inside

If you can get really close, perhaps the drone could squirt some kind of hard to remove paint on the window that the driver uses. Some kind of graffiti technology if that makes sense

Or if u could get close enough with speakers maybe play some loud scary sounds to scare the crew

​@@MrBigbird007😂

@@juavi6987 It was produced 50-60 years ago. It's last major overhaul was likely 40 years ago when it may have received new seals. There are multiple examples of how poorly these Soviet era tanks have been maintained while in mothballs and how little has been done to them before throwing them back into service. That they are using it at night to clear mines also speaks to the value they place on it. Also the seals only work if the hatches are secured. A mine clearing job likely isn't given to the best and brightest and they may also feel they may have to escape quickly in an emergency.

Someone mentioned a percentage of tanks that simply could not be used because the turret was stuck or similar. It was high, these tanks were not protected from the elements. I think you could be right, they could be used for this purpose and maybe the jammer is fake or crude to fool the crew. If the tank seems to move around as if the crew is untrained, it would definitely support this idea.

Rc as in russian crewed.

@@TheFrewah The ball bearing used for tank turrets have to be protected from rust because they need to be perfectly spherical. And Russia no longer has the capability to make ball bearings that size to the required quality levels. China doesn't either. And ball bearings are one of the items Russia cannot import due to the sanctions. Something that I've noticed that we have not been seeing new production T-80s. Word was a year ago that the Russians were going to give up on the T-90 tank and try to restart production of T-80s. (Which are the 'best' tanks the Russians can make without imported technology.) Production of T-90s is plagued by component shortages and the engine - just plain sucks.

@@colincampbell767even if that were true, russians don’t care about wear caused by imperfect bearings, they’d use a potato if it worked

@@jackthompson6296 They will care when their modern fire control system doesn't work properly. A tank turret has to be precision engineered and made. Otherwise, all of the fancy optics and ballistic computers are useless because the turret can't track smoothly and accurately.

Agreed. They look daft, but work

All the extra metal, time, money, weight added by adding these plates is cutting down the speed, the visability and the function of the gun....ISNT worth the one extra RPG round it takes to take them out. This just acts like a slower tank and acts as a drone magnet.

@@suchomimus9921 'Daft Tank', hoping to 'Get Lucky'

fishing nets, 'chicken' wire mesh, curtains of chains

NO. It is a STUPID idea. It doesn't work. Not as a tank nor as a transport vehicle. It only "works" for someone who can throw away tanks, transporters and infantry in dozens if not in hundreds - while feeling out a stretch of road for mines. Meanwhile it sacrifices a whole tank - it is combat ineffective. Turret can't turn, it is slower AND it is a magnet for artillery, drones and any kind of infantry operated anti-tank weapon out there. FFS, you can DANCE UP TO IT IN PAJAMA AND SLIPPERS AND CHUCK A MOLOTOV AT IT - THEY CAN'T SHOOT AT YOU OUT OF THAT THING! The only reason it APPEARS to work is because Ukraine lacks shells and mines to cover the area currently on the attack. Notice we practically never see it clear a mine. It is COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE against something like a PARM mine or even a garden variety IED of the sort used in Iraq. Ukrainians aren't stupid. They know that. They simply didn't have the mines, artillery or time to cover the roads those ovens on tracks were "clearing". That is why they are not wasting time upwelding what tanks they have. They need them fast, agile and able to turn the fucking turret. NOT be used as meme fodder.

Who would win? The pride of the russian armored forces or one spicey drone?

@@h.a.9880 seems pretty even matched. Well, The drones don’t tend to walk away.

Considering those drones are carrying anti tank RPG rounds, not so much a kid’s toy as a advanced weapon. Think of it like this, a homing missile that’s smart enough to turn around on a dime and chase you down. Military’s used to spend billions making this technology, and now with drones, anyone can use them. Scary world we’re living in.

and what about Abrams burned down again, but what about the fact that he is the king of tanks on the singing field, and turned out to be as useless as you🤣

@@adambussert3383 RPG rounds. Not missile warheads. Not shells. Things the size a human can throw. It’s a main battle tank. It’s supposed to be able to take a hit from big stuff, other tank rounds, artillery shells etc etc. you expect a main battle tank to survive a hit, it’s not a surprise it took two kids toys to stop it.

It means f*ck

It is a very strong Russian slang word meaning whore. It is often combined as cyka blyat, which doesn't really make sense, as cyka means slut. It is as common as the F-word in English.

google it ;o)

Better where? Welding garbage steel fences isn't adapting.

I would be more concerned if they wasn't learning even an Incompetent idiot can realize something doesn't work.

​@@kuidaorekitchen5850 It's the best tank protection for today. Just like digging a hole is the best protection from artillery

They're called 'cope cages' for good reason. As the video shows - they don't work very well.

It works to some extent against drones but certainly not against something like Carl-Gustaf rifle or Javelin if that’s what you mean

@@TheFrewah Magnetrons are effective aganist drones too.

@@michaelanderson3096 Ah, so that’s where stolen microwaves end up?

@@TheFrewah Yes - The magnetron part of the microwave.

But not everything can be covered with slat armor. Look at this video - it was protected by the cope cage so they went after the tracks and roadwheels.