It finally happened.
Engineers now so used to the convenience of going on War Thunder forums for official manuals that they mistook a joke post for the real thing & built the hedgehog.
(Still the forums will get the blame for leaking this.)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5821367
Isn’t this a Ukrainian vehicle as well?
Also, I’d be careful to put this off as ineffective so quickly. When cope cages started to appear on (mainly Russian) vehicles, it was ridiculed. For some of the specific designs that may have been justified, but nowadays we see the idea implemented by the likes of the IDF.