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Nice gazebo. They just need a few deckchairs and a fire pit and it'll make a nice garden "feature."
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Nice gazebo. They just need a few deckchairs and a fire pit and it'll make a nice garden "feature."
That'll help it to hide hull down as well.
Admiral Beez
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Do these cope platforms do anything? Is there a single documented instance of a top attack being thwarted by this set up?
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Snautzer01
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Well you have grill iron for when the bbq starts.
manta22
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...or a very flimsy roll bar!
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Admiral Beez
Major
If done professionally and properly slat armour (aka bar armor, cage armor and standoff armor) can apparently be effective. It's commonly used on NATO vehicles as supplemental side protection - but I don't know if it can stop overhead strikes. This Leopard 2 below has slat armour everywhere, except above. Perhaps the Russians are unlikely to employ top attack ATGWs?
Snautzer01
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I think tankers in the past used this kind of do it yourself protection to protect against thrown munitions like bundle pack granates and molotov cocktails.
That i understand. Dont think it will stop a rocket designed to go through a lot of armour plating.
Depends on the round - APDS, APDSFS, HEAT, HESH etc. There's more than one way to penetrate a tank, and more than one way to try and defeat that round: Reactive armour, spaced armour, ceramic armour etc
Snautzer01
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Yes but a cart from a mall aint cutting it.
hahaha! No indeed. Might be better than nothing if the conscript got their coin back from it before they welded it on
Ascent
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Slat armour works primarily by defusing the warhead but can also set the warhead off at a less than optimum distance. Top attack munitions are fused in a totally different way and it's really not going to make a difference to the way the warhead works.
Admiral Beez
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Looks like up to nine hundred Storm Shadows could be made available. They're 25 years old and their use-by date is rapidly approaching.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX_c0_SL_Mo
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX_c0_SL_Mo
Don't worry - I am sure the Ukrainians can find a way to use them all before they run out of life
I think you will find they do work in cases it's just that no-one bothers to photograph a tank that has survived a hit because of the COPE cage whereas there are plenty of photos when they don't work. be just as wary of what you don't see as what you do.
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