Are cope-cages here to stay or going away once tanks have a proper countermeasure to drones?
>>65070225Fpv drone with EFP and remove detonation counter all this shit
Looks like a potato you forgot about in a cupboard for half a year
It feels like ERA would work just fine against the current crop of FPV drones.
Not much use against fpv
>>65070236>Slav tank is potatoPottery.Now the Latvian potato jokes are even more grim, however.
>>65070225>this is fine
>>65070232Honestly any form of standoff detonation that doesn't rely on contact would do the job on its own. Even a shitty RPG warhead maintains a substantial amount of penetration capability at several meters of standoff, which is adequate when it is being used to hit armoured vehicles in the rear or top. Throwing EFP on top of that would mean that even traditional APS might not have the range to protect armoured vehicles, given that some purpose built EFPs can hit targets dozens of meters away from the point of detonation.
>>65070225It'll depend how the arms race plays out.If something like CROWs can be given a very high rate of intercept there is no need to cages.If drones keep getting faster and / or more erratic in the terminal phase and intercept rates remain low the cage will stay.Given how good and cheap accelerometers and solid state gyros are I think we'll see extremly erratic terminal phases become the norm for autonomous drones eventually.
>>65070647It falls off pretty quick for HEAT but EFP can be much further away.
bump
>>65070225Why don't we just stop using tanks and switch to earth submarines? Just like in the movie The Core where they drill underground, just do that with a submarine and have it only come up when it needs to fire rockets.Why has no one thought of this idea? You can't be bombed by a drone if you're underground.
>>65070225Every tank will get a laser defense system in the future.
>>65070236>a potato you forgot about>forgotWar Crime
>>65070225Why didn't they weld the barn onto turret? >>65073069You mean multipurpose laser weapon system right?
>>65070225cope cages are only there to compensate for the lack of countermeasures of existing tank designs. even though they help against drones, it's nowhere near enough to justify the cost of a tank. so unless an effective countermeasure is developed, cope cages will disappear together with tanks
>>65071326>Logarithmic X axisgrim.
>>65070225Bit of both.Cope cages will stick around for a while simply by virtue of being cope. Any force incapable of reducing the threat from top attack munitions ad drones will obviously rely on cope cages.Everyone else will use stuff like aps, attached shorad, EW etc. to minimize the threat.
>>65073554If you can read numbers it works fine, better than 40 slightly different pen depths.
>>65070225Probably not, people got to remember the cuck shed armour was brought in to try and help against top attack ATM's like the NLAW and Javelin. It didn't work of course but maybe there was some motivation to 'do something' at the time. It does work to some extent against drones when you've got light armour and need to keep stuff off the at-risk areas like engine decks and hatches, intakes, exhausts and so on.All that seems to have done though is finding a bigger drone with a fucking massive explosive on it>>65070236Its what happens to tanks after you leave them in a dark hole like russia for 50 years
>>65070232Two drones or two warheads on one drone separated by a rod and on a time delay. First warhead blows a hole in the cage. Second one goes thru the hole.
>>65073554>logarithmicDon't complain. How else would the retard support his bizarre claim that "It falls off pretty quick" if he can't fiddle the chart?
>>65073067anduril and others are working on this
>>65070236This also kills russians, sadly
