The desperate and entrepreneurial Russian troops made a weapon attack vehicle at an old tank, steel and trunks and deployed it as a component of a broader machining attack in Ukrainian positions around the city of Velka Novosilka in the Eastern Ukraine, East of Donetsk.
Incredibly, the log tank—one of many makeshift rides the increasingly vehicle-starved Russians have constructed—worked … until it didn’t. According to the Estonian analyst WarTranslated, the improvised vehicle “withstood drone attacks but succumbed to modern artillery.” A Ukrainian drone observed the vehicle, immobilized and abandoned on a dirt track outside Velyka Novosilka.
The log tank’s endurance in the face of relentless drone attack parallels the plight of an Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank that, thanks to its own add-on armor, recently survived at least eight drone strikes before finally suffering catastrophic damage.
The extra layers of armor, whether steel or wood, can stack the effects of small FPV drones and their small warheads, which weigh no more than a few pounds. But that same armor might not prevent a 100-pound artillery shell filled with 25-pound explosive padding.
The log tank was unusually well-made for a do-it-yourself Russian assault vehicle. The troops who built the vehicle proudly posted a video of their work. The “technical device for transporting personnel” boasted sheet-metal sides covered in thick rubber. “Between the armored capsule and the external lattice armor, logs are placed,” one soldier explained. “The roof is welded with sheet metal.” The hinged door was reinforced with bricks.
All that armor was enough to deflect FPV drones, which fly just a few tens of miles per hour and often strike their targets along the sides. But artillery shells streak in nearly vertically at a speed of a mile per second—and can punch right through a vehicle’s top armor, which is usually the thinnest.
The sacrifice of the log tank is not in vain. After gradually marching to the Valyka Novosilka since the Vuhledard, the city of Fallen Fortress since before last year, the Russians have made their effort to the very Volyka Novosilka in recent days. The Defense Strategies Center marked the city as “captured. “
It was and continues to be a loved effort. After entering the Vleyka Novosilka and consolidating their city, the Russian regiments continued to attack from the north and west. On Sunday morning, a giant Russian attack that involved about twenty cars, according to reports, failed after the Ukrainian withdrew at least seven of cars.
Sources:
1. Wartranslate
2. Yuriy Butusov
3. Moklasen
4. Defense Strategies Center
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