2nd Best Army in Ukraine? | Evolution of Tank Tactics in Ukraine 

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I cant get over how the term "cope cage" has basically become the official designation for these constructs.

i love tanks

Hello, I'm from Irpin, Ukraine. thanks for the great analytics👍

When I was a junior officer, we never had military instructors this good. This was very insightful. I learned a lot. Thank you.

No surprise that Chris Copson's videos do so well. He can clearly and concisely explain a complex subject to a non specialist audience. Many thanks.

Chris is a good story teller and really good at explaining things. Very pleasant to listen to!

9:10 - "we've recently seen some T-72s in Ukraine fitted with what's colloquially been called cope cages" I just love how cope cage has become accepted terminology.

Its good to see that a museum is making itself relevant to modern events. The staff must have been a little surprised to find some of its exhibits running around a current day battlefields.

Chris is doing a great job on these 'chats'.

This is the first video I see from this channel and I have to say I am impressed. This is the gold standard I want from documentaries and similar shows. The production quality is great across the board, the story is interesting and good to follow, the visuals are a great benefit and it has no bloat or nonsense.

I'm sure I've said it before but I'm going to say it again; I very much enjoy Mr Copson's presentations. Clear and concise, technical yet easily approachable, delivered in a confident and natural manner that indicates a high level of familiarity with the subject matter. Excellent stuff.

Absolutely phenomenal content, writing, production, and Chris has been an inspired edition to the presenting team. I've visited the Tank museum many times, and this year my friend from Canada is visiting and asked if I could take him to the museum as he enjoys the video content so much. Keep up the good work.

As usual, Mr. Copson knocks it out of the park with his narration! What brilliant choice as a presenter.

Nice balance of focus on tactics and vehicles. I'm sure there would be equal interest in a similar video about the Ukrainian military and their changing tactics and vehicles over the past year. It could also provide an opportunity to link to some of your older videos on American, British and other NATO equipment currently being used by Ukraine.

Great presentation, really hit the mark. Chris is an excellent addition to the tank museum. I hope to see more content of this sort in the future.

I absolutely love the mention of cope cages. Great video!

Excellent as always, and the production value, which was very good, is getting even better.

Thank you for your video, I appreciate your knowledge and considerable effort. Very well done, and I look forward to all of your products.

Another EXCELLENT video. The explanations of modern warfare--tactics, equipment, etc., were clear, and, as far as I can tell, factual. Keep up the good work!

Enjoyed this! Hope theTank Museum can produce more like this!

That was excellent, I hope there are more updates like this as the war progresses.

incredible production value on this video! I especially appreciate the good audio.

Exceellent video , Chris is really getting into his stride ....great work and keep it up !

Amazingly explained and very informative topic. Thank you for making this film!

Great balanced summary. I think your questions at the end apply equally to both parties.

Excellent video. Very nuanced analysis, illustrated on the museum's exhibits themselves. Well done.

That was another superbly informative and well reasoned video from the Tank Museum. The quality of your videos is superb, as are your presenters.

Mr. Copson excellent presentation. Your cadence, voice quality is most pleasing and overall you made the video very enjoyable. Many thanks to the T.M. for this video. Cheers!

Thanks for another riveting video. I'm happy to say I'll be driving 330 miles down to Bovington in September specifically to visit the tank museum.

Yep I love listening to these. Informative and with a wealth of experience!

Mr. Copson explains the pertinent issues so well and so clearly. Good video.

Excellent analysis and presentation. Best I've seen on RU-vid!

Thank you. I like Chris' analysis. Very good. Lots of great examples.

Being a Russo-Ukrainian, I cannot tell you how thankful I am, and grateful, that you kept this analysis apolitical. Most Westerners are not prepared to accept the frames of reference that us Slavs live within, thus fail in their analyses to do their own intelligence any form of justice whilst insulting the vast majority of us. The diligence and thoughtfulness shown on this channel is what makes Western sources, and indeed any source that follows such a methodology, as great as they are, for there are many Western sources that revile the idea of not making their own ill-informed political opinions known to all. Phenomenal work Mr. Copson. Excellent pronunciation of Russian as well, top class for someone who does not speak the language.

I just came across this channel. Absolutely amazing content. Very well done!

An actually competent and informative flow of information with no to minimal political baggage and no taking sides! Incredibly high standard these days! Awesome

Very nice evaluation of the last year. But I'd like to see the same thing done for the Ukrainian side, and we can then have a "Compare and Contrast" situation. Thanks again.

That is solid research and delivery, just like with the episode on an RPG.(speaking as military RPG instructor) You, Sir, are becoming my favourite presenter on the Tank Museum YT channel.

amazing work as always, thank you very much!

The videos have always been outstanding, but somehow you’ve managed to turn it up another notch

Nice clear explanation of the war so far. Well thought out and spot on.

Thank you Chris for this excellent video.

Knowledgeable, insightful analysis as is always expected from The Tank Museum.

This guy did a really really good job, please make this a series for this war

I feel very guilty and sad to find this so interesting when so many are dying. But it is truly fascinating 🧐

Clear, concise and engaging. Thank you

Thanks Chris, a clear concise and informative non-partisan factual assessment of the conflict so far. I would like to see more of this as the war progresses.

Just to clarify in 12.47min u need to take out that piece with 2 holes and put it around your ak47 or kmpk(polish/rusian heavy machine gun ) so your barrel is outside vehicle and that works quite well I know I was in polish army In 99-00 and we use those bmp these can do 70km-h on tank roads 😀

Hearing such a professional use the term "cope cage" made me laugh. Its both funny, charming and a kind of recognision.

Your evaluation of the War in the Ukraine is insightful and gives more information of what each side is facing in equipment and tactics. I feel we need to concentrate on both the human and material costs! No one talks about the medical services to the wounded combatants and civilians. Every time a tank is destroyed three or more are killed is never spoken of just the fireworks display!

Wow a wonderfully put together video loved it !

Amazinlgy well put together video. Very informative, thank you.

That 22 minutes just flew by. Very fascinating video

Great video, love the official use of the term 'cope cage'

An excellent production with concise and enlightening analysis and content.

really enjoyed that - well laid out and communicated

The Tank Museum went from top five, to relevant documentaries. Impressive content from a museum and fascinating to watch if you like tanks.

... Yet another great vid!. This even applies to game's!. As in infantry support for armour (only needs a few) armour support infantry,or both can indeed suffer greatly,from determined anti-tank infantry,or Indeed armour targeting infantry!.

An outstanding offering! Thank you!

Please keep these videos coming, as an old M60A1 MBT Crewman 3rd Armor Division Frieburg Germany just love these videos. 1977-79

Any official material on the whole "Soviets bellow the rank of Major weren't allowed maps"? These videos are very well done, and I'm always looking forward to more content

Fact based, fascinating overview of the first year of this conflict. Mr Copson has a patient delivery and calm demeanour . Great combination, great talk. Well done all at the wonderful Tank Museum. ATVB2 all Scott Somerset

Chris came to my school on Monday, keep up the good work mate

Great explanation makes things clearer and issues understandable thank you. Keep up the good work.

i believe 1st major conflict in Europe after 1945 was the Yugoslavia in 90s.

One clue for the NAFO bots: civil casualties in Iraque :+ 1 000 000, UKR +- 8 000 (source ONU in 1 year)

very clear,understandable analysis in straightforward,simple language. Excellent.

What a beautiful lecturer. Time to search him up and tuck in and listen in more.

Were the tactics used early on really the same as soviet WW2 tactics? Correct me if I'm wrong or feel free to elaborate, but In WW2, they'd have multiple waves, each with corresponding support elements in the air and on track, with the objective of pushing forward until they were at the edge of stalling, and then, very importantly, transition into creating and holding a beachhead for the next group that was just behind. Thus always preparing the way for the continued assault of fresh and supplied units. I might be wrong, but to me the tactics used in Feb 22 seemed to have degenerated rather than carried over from WW2, as when the front units were halted there was no second fresh wave just behind them to carry on the attack with fresh supplies

Great information and presentation. Well done, and thanks !

What a deep analysis. Facts. Explained. Well done!

As mentioned in the video, mission-based tactics only work if the junior officers and NCOs are highly trained and competent. If not, it's a recipe for utter chaos and disaster. This was probably THE major advantage for the Wehrmacht - an extremely competent officer and NCO corps - well trained in combined warfare and mission-based tactics. Even privates were expected to show personal initiative.

The narrator saying "cope cages" caught me off-guard and was very enjoyable. Like hearing Leonard Nimoy say "get good scrub."

Very insightful analysis of the developing situation, thank you

Great job! I was really impressed with this video.

It's hard to wrap your head around just how much smaller T-72 is, until you see a picture of one next to a "Challenger" or "Abrams". It almost looks like tanks of Western designs can kill T-72 tanks simply by driving over them and crushing with tracks.

Can you guys cover the armored engagement that occurred in Africa between the Russian T-72 (I believe) and the Chinese ZTZ-96 please? I honestly found the results of that skirmish surprising and really interesting.

He has amazing knowledge, I would love to watch more videos and love how detailed he is, amazing video

Fantastic analysis. Thanks for this 👍

Cope cages were seen from the start of the war. They were often "unofficial" additions by the crew hoping to protect from top attack missiles. But they were ineffective for that. On the other hand, as the war progressed, and drones dropping "presents" into open hatches the idea of cope cages on top started to make sense. So, the concept of "cope cages" has evolved during the arc of the war. From a joke to useful. But useful for a totally different threat than envisioned at the start of the war. At the start they were intended to deflect very old anti-tank weapons that were not being used, and in theory against modern weapons that the cages were totally inappropriate for. Now, a year later they can use cages to deflect grenades/bombs dropped from drones into open hatches and to protect from kamikaze drones trying to fly into those hatches too.

Are people allowed to visit The Tank Museum? I would make a trip out of it

What a great video, presented excellently. This was very interesting.

I like these reports. Because you have people who really know the equipment and/or have participated in combat I'm getting a clearer idea of the situation as opposed to an opinion from a news reporter.. I truely value my subscription to your channel. Thanks.

Would be interesting to see how next gen MBT would look like with the massive proliferation of surveillance and armed drone.

12:46 - thats totally wrong - you take out the inlay of the port and clamp it over the barrel and the upper handguard behind the gas port and then you put it back inside - so its totally seald from ABC Weapons

Another incredible video by mr Copson, I could watch an entire documentary on this topic.

Bravo! Nice job. Interesting and informative

Thanks for covering this important part of war history. Knowledge is a power. And knowing your enemy is hard but valueable lesson. Greetings from Ukraine!

During WW2 already, the RA tank units used bedframes round the turret to protect against panzerfausts.

Great video. Very informative and detailed analysis. 👍

Excellent video, great work you guys

This must have been recorded before the recent leaks.

I really hope somewhere in the British army there's a boffin somewhere coming up with an anti drone capability for tanks. Something that can detect them and take them down. Be it an automated 50 cal hooked up to a radar or something along those lines.

Thank You Another Great video . Cheers

Great production! Congrats!

The fact that “cope cage” has made its way to a professional’s mouth is incredible

Nice recap and analysis of the year of fighting in the Ukraine.

Great video and made easy to understans a very complex issue ❤

Insightful! Please keep it coming.