.IN LATE 2021 Russia started welding metallic cages over the belfries of its storage tanks, in an effort to safeguard all of them coming from assault. The crates showed inadequate– some Western analysts amusingly termed them “emotional-support armour”. Now Russia has offered a much more intensive retrofit, using metallic bed linen to completely confine several of its own tanks.
The new armour has gained the cars the nickname “turtle storage tanks”. Will kitting all of them out this way truly aid?