The latest Russian “hedgehog” tanks are shown here covered with unraveled heavy metal cable attached to a steel mesh.
This thick and heavy system is not impregnable of course but it does significantly increase the number of Ukrainian FPVs required to destroy the tank.
Dude, you should check out the mechanized absurdities of WW2.
Every paradigm shift brings with it a heap of idiotic and daring experiments . like adaptive radiation creates many dead ends, so does innovation.
assuming the urchin strategy is effective, i look forward to seeing what a fresh off the factory production model vehicle operating off of this design philosophy would look like.
It's a bootleg temporary stopgap until directed energy technologies breakthrough. Drone war has evolved a niche that lasers can fill as anti-drone weaponry, where a missile or full UAV are too difficult a target for lasers, weaponizing them against drones is easier.