Russia’s turtle tanks may look ridiculous with their layers of crude add-on armor—sheet metal, grills and even logs sometimes—but that doesn’t mean they don’t work. All that extra protection might ...

For decades, a large number of post-Soviet tanks have been stationed under the open sky at several bases across Russia.

As Russia is said to have lost over 10,000 tanks on the battlefield, according to Kyiv, the country is now reportedly resorting to using T-34 tanks, which date back to World War II.