After looking into the code I found that both tank entities contain:
flags = { "placeable-player", "player-creation", "not-rotatable" },
For testing purposes I removed the "not-rotatable" flag, after which it worked again as it did before the patch. I do, however, not know, if this might cause something else to fail, I only did a short test, where it worked fine.
I will continue to play with my fix and report, if I notice that anything breaks