It would be if it were real. Plenty of reports out there that the ERA on Russian tanks is either empty boxes, a box filled with egg crate, or other similar for-show-only material.
Shades of cargo cult here, if Russians think attaching things that look like ERA is sufficient. Particularly when right next to an enormous glass windshield.
Maybe they figure that if they look like they have ERA, the Ukrainians will target the next tank in line.
Works only until everyone has fake ERA, then a couple rounds shows that everyone’s is fake, then it’s open season.
Basically, a tin box with plastic explosive in it that goes bang when hit by an anti-tank round.
On attack by a penetrating weapon, the explosive detonates, forcibly driving the metal plates apart to damage the penetrator. Against a shaped charge, the projected plates disrupt the metallic jet penetrator, effectively providing a greater path-length of material to be penetrated. Against a kinetic energy penetrator, the projected plates serve to deflect and break up the rod.
As pointed out in the comments, it needs to be mounted on armor plate. If on a soft skin vehicle like the one pictured, when it explodes it causes as much damage inward as it does outward.
Not that it matters because what’s in the picture looks more like painted wood blocks than the real stuff. Cargo cult armor, perhaps?
I am not surprised by the others, but any idea why Nicaragua is voting with Russia?
Ortega doesn’t have a good history with the USA.
Russian conscripts “firing” at unknown targets with no clips under their weapons as Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu visited the training ground of the Western Military District…
Supply problems, or somebody smart enough to realize that you shouldn’t hand someone a loaded gun unless you’re very sure where they’ll point it?
In the bits where they are standing and firing, it looks to me like at least one of the rifles is exhibiting at least some kickback.
word is, the Ukr is asking them to print de Owners-Manual in both languages…
… makes things so much easier 
at least the Ru. would have to stop bitching about germany and the US supplying Ukr.
hey, he might only have 2 fingers left, but that doesn’t make him useless
(insert one-legged-guy and ass-kicking contest joke here)
am I the only one here, thinking EXPLOSIVE armor on 0.3mm sheetmetal is not a good idea, no matter from which side you look at it???
they were converted into superyachts
Hasn’t he been grumbling along those lines all along?
Not sure if this is the right thread to share this link but Nikita Kruschev’s granddaughter happens to be a professor of international affairs who very recently returned from Russia. She had some interesting observations about how the country seems to be in shock and living in fear of what the government might decide to do next. She says don’t believe it when you hear about 70% of Russians supporting Putin; it’s more like 20% support him, 30% oppose him and the other 50% just want to be left the hell alone. Putin broke the ‘leave me alone’ social contract when announcing the mobilization.
Her remarks begin around 1:20 here:
Hear what professor who just visited Russia noticed - YouTube
The Russians are being called Orcs.
Warhammer 40k Ork technology works that way: it works because the Orks believe it works (or are too stupid to understand that it doesn’t work ).
Which is why painting war vehicles red makes them go faster, for instance.
Fake ERA might work against previous-generation armor piercing ammo by causing it to explode farther away, so it’s not a complete cargo cult even if they won’t be facing those types of weapons.
Two things here. The Kerch ferry terminal is in downtown Kerch city, which that image is clearly not (it is much more urban than that).
And, if those shots are of Kerch or an area near Kerch, bear in mind that Kerch is in Crimea. Those would be vehicles trying to get out of Crimea, not into it. (The images also do not look like the terminal in Kavkaz – the closest one, nor Yeysck, nor anywhere else I can spot in Krasnodar or Rostov Obls, from a quick scan).
This might help with the locations:
Yes, these particular backups are on the Crimean side of the strait.
Even though it’s the Russia to Crimea side of the bridge that was downed? The intact side must be moving traffic in both directions. I suspect intensive inspections probably have as much to do with the backups as the bridge damage.
I don’t believe any trucks have been allowed over the remaining span, just light vehicles. There are probably backups just as large on the other side as well, though perhaps goods moving in are more likely to be re-routed around the Sea of Azov to the north.
One would have to guess that Russia has prioritized military logistics across the remaining deck of the bridge, perhaps exclusively, so traffic out of Crimea (which really really does not want to go through war zones like the Berdyansk/Mariupol route) has to use the ferries. Cars wanting to leave Crimea probably have to go through the Kerch downtown terminal, which I suspect suits Russia just fine as they would rather not have civilian Russians fleeing their precious Crimea (or their cannonfodder, for that matter).
Ukr thermal’d a Ru ammunition warehouse in Belgorod (Ru)
the cumulative effect of those needlepricks makes everything so much more costly to Ru (logistics, workarounds, add’l resources, …) … and it’s like the Ukr is playing cat-and-mouse with them …
Elon Musk to Ukraine/US: “Nice war you got here. Would be a shame if something happened to it.”