Mostly in the photographs from the Second World War, you can see that attached tracks flaunt over the armor of the vast majority of tanks (and some other tracked vehicles). And here we have a simple question: why did the tankers do this? Are the tracks attached to the armor really like a spare wheel in a car? And what will happen if they are hit by a shell or shrapnel?
If the tracked tracks attached over the armor on the tank served as a kind of "spare wheel", then why unlike armored vehicles of the Second World War, to see something similar on modern tanks will be extremely complicated? This is because these are not spare parts at all in case of a broken track, but an improvised passive booking. Strictly speaking, track links placed on top of the armor are an attempt by mechanics and crew to increase the vehicle's survivability in combat conditions.
The fact is that during the Second World War, the constant race of armor and cannon was especially furious. The Germans made new heavy tanks - the Soviets tried to immediately respond with new SPGs, the Germans made a new look booking - the British immediately tried to respond with shells of a new type, the Americans - with new types weapons. With all this, in the conditions of constant development at the front there was a huge amount of equipment that naturally (in the conditions of the constant emergence of new technologies) shifted along the food chain down.
Moreover, a number of vehicles that ended up at the front from the very beginning were extremely vulnerable to field artillery, self-propelled guns and tanks with heavy weapons. And it was not at all because the Soviet T-34s or American Shermans were bad machines. It's just that their disadvantages in booking arose from their advantages and the tactical niche they occupied. Nevertheless, everyone wanted to live, and therefore the soldiers and mechanics began to attach tracked tracks over the main armor.
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Tracks were made of high-quality steel, and therefore provided some kind of additional protection, especially in the most vulnerable places. In addition, the track attached to the armor increased the likelihood of a projectile ricochet. Not only medium tanks, but even heavy ones dabbled in such tuning. For example, after 1943, impromptu passive track protection can be seen even on the formidable German tigers, which by that time had already become easy prey for Soviet self-propelled guns.
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Interestingly, in most cases, the tanks were not attached to their own tracks, but trophy tracks taken from destroyed enemy vehicles, which were to be sent for recycling.
If you want to know even more interesting things, then you should read about will it be of any use to shove a scrap or a rail into a tank trackas advised in the war.
A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/080220/53368/