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Their limited stockpiles of air-delivered precision weapons, demonstrated by a steep drop off in use after the second week, has meant that the Air Force has also fallen back on dropping imprecise dumb munitions on urban areas. On the ground, and despite knowing they were going to face Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, and all the lessons of the recent Karabakh conflict, the Russians didn't invest in effective systems to protect even their most advanced tanks. Remember the T-14? Presumably still just for victory parades. Russian soldiers' futile use of pine logs as makeshift protection on logistical trucks and attaching overhead 'cope cages' to their tanks, it's nothing short of tragic. But their commanders' failures to adapt before entering them into such a conflict is criminal. And there is a complete shortage of all medical services, with overflowing civilian hospitals in Belarus and Ukrainian civilian surgeries being forced to provide medical aid to the same desperate Russian forces who invaded their homes.

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The "cope cage" goes mainstream, as the UK defense secretary uses the slang terminology for SLAT armor in his morning speech on May 9th.


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from drones that can either drop munitions or crash into them, kamikaze style. But there is also specula- tion that the canopies are meant to blunt the Javelin's top-down attack, giving the tank and its crew a slightly better chance of survival. The design concept is similar to that of slat armor, which U.S. and other militaries have used to surround vehicles in steel cages, to detonate rocket- propelled grenades prematurely. Social media has been littered with photos of destroyed Russian tanks with cages. The im nave acquired a symbolic resonance se nternet users have coined the teAn cope cage" earning a page on the Internet's priary m. lirectory. Others have suggested thermal attaciments to ne tank may be an attempt to complicate the issile's ability to focus on the target. A Telegram channel associated with pro-Russian rces also published instructions for Russian diers on how to use Javelin systems that they oture in Ukraine. "There is a prevailing narrative in the public aL mind to sort of lionize certain weapons systems as uat hat are the Javelin's limitations? to The Javelin is "not a silver bullet," said Kotlarski, e com Janes. naving a defining imi said on certain conflicts " he
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