![]() ![]() ![]() "Put simply, if the engineers who know a lot more about tank design and armor thought it wasn't worth putting additional purpose-designed armor somewhere, it's unlikely that whatever an inexperienced tank crew comes up with will prove to be a net benefit."Īnother problem for Russian tankers in future battles is the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Army armor officer and modern tank warfare historian, told Kyiv Post. "There is a long history of tank crews adding things to their tanks, but very rarely has it turned into a net positive," Nicholas Moran, former U.S. 26 editorial: "As predicted, this uneducated and stupid idea (cope cages), in combat conditions, turned out to be absolutely senseless …The tankers threw them out, and now these protective grates have disappeared." The Russian military information platform Voenniy Osvedomitel came to the same conclusion in a Dec. On the battlefield, it turned out, the grates - dubbed "cope cages" by military observers in Europe and America, and "BBQ grills (мангали )" by the tankers themselves - didn’t stop the missiles.Įven worse, Ukhachev added, if a crew needed to bail out of a tank with a cope cage on the roof, the metal grate trapped crewmen in the turret. In the first place the grates cause problems: the machine gun won’t rotate, antennae get caught up in the grate, then the radio burns out and you have no communications". Ukhachev said in the May 28 article that: "We welded grates on top of our tanks, but we wound up removing them. Russian tank captain Aleksei Ukhachev, speaking in a Moskovsky Komsomolets magazine article, tore into Kremlin leadership for sending him and his crews to war aboard vehicles grossly vulnerable to high tech missiles like U.S.-made Javelin and the Swedish/British NLAW.īoth hand-held weapons, the missiles’ "fire-and-forget" firing systems enable the shooter to press a trigger and hide immediately, as the munition flies itself to the target and attacks the tank’s roof, where the armor is thinnest. ![]()
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