The latest Vladimir Putin contrivance in his war against attrition appears to be remote-controlled drone tanks.
Knewz.com has learned that this information follows reports of heavy personnel losses at the behest of Ukraine’s guns.
The video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, by Clash Report shows a camo-clad Russian soldier with a remote control in his hand. Opposite the serviceman is a compact-looking tank.
The vehicle’s driver can also be seen wearing a set of goggles which allows him a first-person view thanks to a camera on the tank.
This sighting follows an earlier report by Knewz.com that Russia was running out of armored vehicles and delving into old stockpiles of defunct technology.
A 2023 article by Forbes confirmed that the country’s forces were reaching into stockpiles of soviet era tanks.
The publication went on to note that Putin’s regime had lost an astronomical amount of hardware including tanks and as a result, it was resorting to its soviet era stores.
At that point already, the invading force had lost more than 2,000 units and was struggling to produce the high-tech components required to build the models needed in the Ukraine war.
“Russia has been pulling out of long-term storage, hundreds of 60-year-old T-62s and 70-year-old T-55s. Tanks that were obsolete decades ago,” the publication noted.
When this practice proved insufficient, Russian technicians started welding tracked vehicles to naval guns from aging ships.
At that point, an astute observation was made by a Ukrainian observer Oleksandr Kovalenko. He noted: “The most interesting thing is that there are no crews in the unit who can operate these tanks.”
If this recent video is anything to go by, then the challenge faced by Russia prevails.
Not only are Putin’s forces suffering a dire shortage of mechanized armored weapons, but also the personnel to operate them.
A recent post by Knewz.com highlighted the cause of these shortages. A video posted by Ukraine’s 46th Separate Aeromobile Brigade of the Air Force showed a squat-looking boxlike vehicle with a turret being targeted by a kamikaze drone.
As soon as the projectile made contact with the tank, the latter exploded, ripping off its customized armor and sending shards of hot metal skywards.
This scenario is a nod to other failed efforts by the Russians to fortify their tank’s vulnerabilities by covering them with extra armor plating.
The new look earned these tracked vehicles the moniker, “Turtle Tanks”, and while touted among the Russian ranks as indestructible, they are succumbing to Ukraine’s forces in as dramatic a fashion as the stock standard units.
These developments come at a period that has been dubbed the deadliest week of the war for Moscow, and adding insult to injury, its adversaries are showing a growing appetite for battle.
Recently, unnamed Baltic state ministers warned Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz that they were prepared to field troops against Russia.
Around the same time, France openly called on NATO to allow the use of Western weapons on Russia, while at the White House, President Joe Biden simply gave the go-ahead.
Russia responded to this by leaking its plans to send a naval fleet to the Caribbean and by violating NATO member Finland’s airspace during an airborne military exercise.
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