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by krige 40 days ago
Original cope cages were a very misguided attempt to copy the functionality of the actual working fence-like defensive measures. Except in those cases they did next to nothing, which is why they were dubbed cope cages.

AFAICT the concept was improved since then but I haven't been following the tech tree of cobbled-together defensive measures used in that war in a good while.
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genewitch 39 days ago
if anyone wants to see what the bradleys in Iraq were kitted out with, https://imgur.com/a/vCXPqUa this is circa 2008 or so. Mentioned to a friend who always mentions that chain link fencing saved his life and now i come to find out it was just bar armor. weak!

* not weak, it saved my friend's life, awesome.

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genewitch 39 days ago
haha, i was wondering why i'd never heard the term. So a cope cage is a cargo cult artifact?
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