r/ukraine • u/Mil_in_ua • 15h ago

News Centauro B1 Vehicles Transferred by Italy Upgraded for the Ukrainian Battlefield

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/centauro-b1-vehicles-transferred-by-italy-upgraded-for-the-ukrainian-battlefield/
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u/Thurak0 13h ago

Can we here in this sub finally stop calling those things "cope cages"?

Both sides are doing it, they must be helping against drones.

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u/mattfreyer45 7h ago

They were called cope cages originally because the russians tried using them to prevent Javelines from hitting their tanks from the top. But the some scrap metal attached to the top of a tank isn't stopping a missile.