Standing inside a cavernous garage, Russian military blogger Alexander Sladkov shows off the latest iteration of the so-called cope cage craze. As the camera pans across the workspace, about a ...

Footage shared by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show exploding drones striking Russian 'cope cages.' Both Russia and Ukraine have used the cages as makeshift missile defenses on vehicles.

A strange video from the war in Ukraine showed a modified old tank. The footage seemed to show a T-54 or T-55 with a huge "cope cage" on top. The devices are a kind of crude defense against anti ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

Footage shared by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show exploding drones striking Russian 'cope cages.' Both Russia and Ukraine have used the cages as makeshift missile defenses on vehicles ...

Russia's Pacific Fleet submarines off Vladivostok on July 30, 2023. Russia's Northern fleet vessel Tula had a "cope cage" installed on it to protect it against drones, it has been reported.

The Military Show. New Ukrainian FRAGS Go Through Russian Tanks Like Butter. Posted: April 16, 2025 | Last updated: April 16, 2025. Russia’s cope cages are failing—badly.

The first reported sighting of a Russian cope cage on a T-72B3. The T-72B3 is identified by the presence of the Sosna-U optical sight box on the top left of the turret.

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 ...

A Ukrainian drone with a cope cage. Hundreds of thousands of tiny drones cloud the sky over the 700-mile front line of Russia’s 39-month wider war on Ukraine—far too many for traditional gun ...

Footage shared by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show exploding drones striking Russian 'cope cages.' Both Russia and Ukraine have used the cages as makeshift missile defenses on vehicles. However, ...

Footage shared by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show exploding drones striking Russian 'cope cages.' Both Russia and Ukraine have used the cages as makeshift missile defenses on vehicles. However, ...