Russian Television Features Episode of Smirnov's "Large Caliber Commotion" Including Look At A Terminator

Russia 24 featured an episode from Alexey Smirnov's "Крупнокалиберный Переполох" ("Large Caliber Commotion") show featuring a look at some of the latest Russian military hardware being used in Ukraine. The show includes a detailed look at a BMPT Terminator. Of especial interest is that while imagery typically seen of Terminators in military manuals and in exercises always depict an open top, the Terminators and other equipment shown in the video all feature the counter-drone cages and netting covering the top of the vehicle that has come to define warfare in Ukraine, capturing that even Russia's most powerful and technologically advanced tank is vulnerable to the humble drone. Even more interesting is that the episode goes into detail about the tank's vaunted automated countermeasures against traditional battlefield weapons, such as a fully automated response to laser rangefinding systems, even while the entire tank is apparently so vulnerable to a cheap drone flying overhead that the entire top has to be caged in.

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