Cage is too small compared to Russian and Ukrainian. It needs to be as large as practically possible to cover multiple angle.Slat armor is becoming more and more widespread. Screen caps are from a recent exercise in the north.
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Seems that the turret design is not conducive to cope cage coverage. Pretty exposed from the front.
I feel like the final evolution of a cope cage armoured fighting vehicle will just be a da Vinci fighting vehicles with ERA instead of wood.
FPVs are accurate enough to go through slots in slate armor, too good of a coverage and you're basically forcing the crew to burn to death in case of a penetrating hit from another tank due to horrible ergonomics, hard problem to solve.
But that would obstruct the APS.
Edit: Israel also chose to do the same. While they're not impressive in most respects, they still have plenty of experience at having vehicles blown up. If making a full turtle tank is better, I'd think they would have embraced it at this point.
Also Russian tank with hard kill APS (T-14) is not seen with any cope cage at all. I'd guess that if it had, it would be a Chinese style one rather than turtle tank.
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No APS installed in those examples, nor do I think think APS adaptation at mass scale is a good option.
No, it's a just the damaged warhead, it can't penetrate the main armor.
It looks like one of the APS tests failed? Around 10:05