The kamikaze tanks have similarities with the way ISIS militants used car bombs. "What a stupid way to conduct armored operations by the Russians," a retired US general said. On Saturday, Russian troops used a similar ploy — rigging a captured Ukrainian MT-LB armored fighting vehicle with five bombs and 3.5 tons of explosive. One video released by the Russian state-owned TASS news agency shows the compartment of a vehicle stuffed with a bomb and explosives. But Ukraine has effectively forced them to fly far from the battlefield, evening the odds on the ground.

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Persons: —, Mark Hertling, couldn't, Hugo Kaaman Organizations: ISIS, Service, US Army, CNN, Twitter, Novosti, TASS Locations: US, Ukrainian, US Army Europe, Russian, Ukraine, Russia