When you fight a war against a backdrop of shortages, emerging threats and Slavic ingenuity, perhaps it’s not surprising that you end up with a bunch of systems being used that aren’t exactly factory standard.One of the first images of the Russian invasion were tanks equipped with add-on overhead cages, but in 2024 the most extreme examples of anti-drone protection now include vehicles with entire structures built over them to provide near all round protection.In this episode, I look at vehicle modification in Ukraine, examine some of the main classes of modification and ad-hoc vehicles we’ve seen and ask why they exist, and what sort of military value they might have.