![]() 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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