Crews of Russian tanks participating in an unmotivated large-scale aggression against Ukraine must understand that they were put into mobile iron coffins, which, even with an indirect hit by a modern anti-tank missile, do not leave them a single chance for survival - they were simply sent to slaughter.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said last Monday that the aggressor has lost 580 tanks since Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, CNN reports..

Experts point out that Russian tanks suffer from a design flaw that the Western military has been aware of for decades and which is called the “hell-in-the-box effect.”. However, the Russian military-industrial complex continues to stubbornly reproduce this defect..

The problem is how tank ammunition is stored. Unlike modern Western tanks, Russians carry several shells in their turret.. This makes them very vulnerable, since even an indirect hit from an anti-tank missile causes a detonation that detonates all their ammunition - up to 40 rounds..

The resulting shock wave could be enough to throw a tank turret to the height of a two-story building, as seen in recent videos posted on social media..

This shortcoming means that the crew of the tank - usually two people in the turret and a third at the wheel - is doomed.. Munitions explosions create problems for almost all the armored vehicles that Russia uses in Ukraine.

This shortcoming of Russian armored vehicles has been known since the days of the war in Iraq, but Russia has not learned the lessons. When the T-90 series - the successor to the T-72 - entered service in 1992, its armor was upgraded, but the threat of detonation remained.. T-80, another Russian tank involved in the invasion of Ukraine, is also the “perfect mobile coffin”.

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