Russia's War Against Ukraine

[GDS_Starfury]

its claimed to be an IR decoy.   ::)

[Dammit Carl!]

It's going into winter, so maybe it's like a mobile hobo burn can.

[Sir Slash]

That's what I thought too, IR Decoy. Or else Madd Maxx time.    Defiantly time to go back on topic.

[Gusington]

'Mobile hobo burn can'  ;D

[Sir Slash]

Wouldn't fire ATTRACT heat-seeking missiles?  ???

[Crossroads]

its claimed to be an IR decoy.   ::)

Just saw a post by a guy who knows how many of the older ATGM - with emphasis on Guided - models such as TOW have an IR sensor on the sight itself, and if the sight locks on wrong target then it means the shot will miss. So their magic lanter might actually work :o.


Edit Not sure that little bucket has the intensity to resemble a missile's flame oh it is an IR beacon on its tail. But I assume that indeed is the idea behind it. => So it won't work, definitively a Cope Bucket and not a working solution.

[Dammit Carl!]

"Well, boys, we're heading into combat; light the can. And you, Ivan, don't run through any water or you're getting out and re-lighting the damn thing."

[GDS_Starfury]

it just needs to be hotter then the engine not a rocket or a jet.

[bobarossa]

Really want to know what that shit is all about.

  Burning thing on a pole?  Infrared decoy maybe?

Maybe the tank has gas and they're trying to not stink up the neighborhood.  :)

[Crossroads]

Maybe the tank has gas and they're trying to not stink up the neighborhood.  :)

Or, they heard you can brew a pot of tea in a Challenger 

So, had a chance to check things out on another forum. With TOW, the launcher tracks the IR beacon on the missile to guide the missile towards the target at crosshair of the sight. In theory, the Cope Lantern was to distract this mechanism.

There's been a lot of videos with Ukrainians killing tanks with their Stugna ATGM system. Stugna uses a laser guiding system, so in theory at least some of the Orc tanks would have a warning system for that, hence they target some way off behind the tank following its movement, then move the crosshair, and the laser, to hit the tank just before the hit.

So maybe the Cope Lantern is a dual purpose thing, it can emit smoke as well so you could see the lasers pointing at you.

Cope cage, cope mesh, cope lantern, see, we're good to go  :bd:

[Gusington]

Those lanterns have become all the rage on social media.

[FarAway Sooner]

I thought it was just one of those charcoal cylinders where you can get your charcoal up to a uniform temperature in five minutes or less and then dump it into your grill to cook?  An army travels on its stomach, ya know...

[JasonPratt]

In non-Soviet White Russia, tank crews need so much vodka to cope, that a special flatulence exhaust pipe must be installed for the air to be breathable!  :bd:

A little more seriously, the pipe looks hollow on the end, so maybe there's a dump valve for something to be ignited by the ad hoc charcoal cylinder on the end. So they've been given instructions: "If you detect infrared missile incoming, Comrade, then dump fuel out pipe onto burning pot, it will be hotter than engine and missile will miss nearby!"

This combines all apparent evidence with ignorance and/or insanity, so I feel like it has advantages as a theory.  >:D

[GDS_Starfury]

its just coal in a pot, relax.

[FarAway Sooner]

This combines all apparent evidence with ignorance and/or insanity, so I feel like it has advantages as a theory.  >:D

I think you pretty much hit the nail on the essence of this Grogheads forum in general, my friend!