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> They have indeed been mockingly dubbed by Western analysts as “emotional support armour” or “cope cages”. That got a chuckle from me It looks like these thi
by oneoff786 5y ago
> They have indeed been mockingly dubbed by Western analysts as “emotional support armour” or “cope cages”.
That got a chuckle from me
It looks like these things would impair entry/exit.
Are there other ways to enter a tank? Walking dead S1E1 leads me to believe you can get in through the bottom?
- RealityVoid 5y agoI credit the origin of the name mostly to /r/noncredibledefense - It's a whole community pride thing over there.
- 0cVlTeIATBs 5y agoThere are posts on 4chan from Feb 20th. Anything that early in that sub?
- RobertMiller 5y ago'Cope' has been a meme word on 4chan for a while now (along with 'seethe' and another that I won't repeat.) I believe 'cope cage' originally came from 4chan's /k/. 4chan culture bleeds out into the rest of the internet though, so it's hard to say for sure.
- RealityVoid 5y agoHmm, i think you are right. That is where I first encountered it though. This is the first instance I could see in the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/t2tgnw/comment/hyo3xz1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/t2tgnw/...
- throwanem 5y agoI don't know the show, but I believe it's set in the US, and the last American tank I know of with a belly hatch was the M60 that left frontline service a few years after I was born. Abrams don't have them, and after recent decades' experiences with IEDs and development of hull designs to reduce or defeat their effects, I suspect it'll likely be a while before they turn up again.
- idontwantthis 5y agoThe tank in Walking Dead was an M60 way past it's sell-by date.
- rich_sasha 5y agoIn rock climbing, you sometimes place protection that deep inside you know wouldn’t hold. It’s called PPP, or purely psychological pro[tection]. Seems to work as that.