.IN LATE 2021 Russia began welding steel cages over the belfries of its containers, in a try to safeguard them coming from strike. The crates verified ineffective-- some Western professionals amusingly dubbed all of them "emotional-support armour". Now Russia has presented a much more extensive retrofit, using metallic sheeting to entirely confine a number of its own storage tanks. The new armour has gained the automobiles the nickname "tortoise tanks". Will kitting them out in this way truly aid?