It’s to protect against war boys jumping on your car and trying to shiv you while you drive.
Source: I am the one that runs from both the living and the dead.
The caterpillarification of warfare has begun
Gonna guess this is for those birds in australia?
No. This a warhound. Its ready to go to war
Those accursed magpies shall rue the day they beset my precious targ!
I’ve seen them advertised as “raptor jackets” and more recently coyote jackets
And coyotes
You’re all laughing, but armored cars only do this when they’re experiencing extreme stress. Take it to the vet!
Wake up babe, new Twisted Metal character revealed!
It’s been like 13 years since the last one
We could have all sorts of new wacky driving weirdos
Humvees are known to do this when they’re frightened
Cheap drone with a grenade on it hits those spikes, breaks a rotor and falls to ground, explodes with minimal damage to vehicle
Now I get it.
It protects against giant pidgeons.
But not giant pigeon shit.
Yes, and it works. It’s not impervious but when your life is on the line any tiny advantage is worth it.
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ok this is just silly now somebody mount a huge awkward solid state laser on that thing for god sakes
Lockheed-Martin liked that
I’m not actually sure if these kinds of setups are very effective. I saw pics of a couple of Russian vehicles (think they were tanks or BMPs, not sure) a few months back that were absolutely decked out in this kind of stuff, so much netting and so many chains hanging off it that it almost looked like it was wearing a ghillie suit, and they both still got blown up. Admittedly it seemed to take several drones rather than just one, but that’s still a very good trade in terms of production costs.
The more important thing, and something that the Russians seem to be getting better at (perhaps with the help of their new 50km-range fibre optic drones and practice at spotting them), is taking out the drone teams in the first place. Otherwise you’re just never going to have meaningful freedom of movement anywhere near the line of contact, and no ability to concentrate forces.
It might just be a psychological thing. Western Allied tank crews in WW2 would stack sandbags on their tanks, which did absolutely nothing (probably made them even slower), but it made them feel more protected.
centimeteres between a charge and the armor do actually matter, this fucker doesn’t have much armor in the first place but it’s always going to be better to take an explosive from further than literally on you than not
It’s so the soldiers can play Kerplunk when they’re bored
Sticks going into a drone’s propellors pretty much has the same effect as a stick going into a bicycle wheel so yeah.
It finally happened.
Engineers now so used to the convenience of going on War Thunder forums for official manuals that they mistook a joke post for the real thing & built the hedgehog.
(Still the forums will get the blame for leaking this.)(Crossposted it: lemmy.zip/46092029)
That’s an Australian APC, it’s almost magpie season.
Alex what is a faraday cage
