The pic is real btw, but the question is: so what? Every war in like last 100-150 years have some Frankensteins of their own, I think you can find a lot of similar monsters from Ukrainian side, or a lot of things like this in Chechen war, Vietnam war, WW2, WW1, you can find something similar even in Boer war or even earlier.
Not exactly same thing, but here example of Ukrainians using slightly modified civilian car.
Probably one of the earliest examples of Frankenstein monsters of war
Or this thing
There’s also the NI Tank of the USSR during WWII - a tractor with naval metal sheets sandwiching sand, concrete and wood with either a heavy machinegun disguised as cannon or a 20mm gun in the turret. There’s the homemade tanks in Middle-East conflicts and, of course, the ever present Techicals.
Pretty sure NI was created as a desperate attempt to have something, anything in a city that was under siege by Nazis at the time
The NI tank was created during the Siege of Odessa after all of the actual tank manufacturing had been removed from the city. So the engineers created monstrous Frankenstein tanks with whatever was left after the evacuation.
Which is precisely my point
It was, but I’m just going on about the many improvised vehicles in 20th and 21st century warfare. That and because the NI was a curiousity.
The pic is real btw
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This is nothing new. The DPR and LPR forces have been doing this since 2015. The Russians themselves have even shared videos on Telegram showing their workshops gathering destroyed Ukrainian vehicles from the battlefield to cobble others together.
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Waste not, want not. Better to send this old gear to the battlefield than the scrapheap.
Russia boutta start rallying levy’s and using swords like its 1471
1471
Pretty sure it was sabers and bardiches by then
1471 would already be the era of early firearms and gunpowder. Yes melee weapons would still be plentiful but they would be quickly becoming obsolete.
Better than shovels, so the British admit they are improving. They will be back to flankers by next week.
