Look you bet your ass I looked far and wide for this video on youtube to no avail, so I had to get it myself. You're welcome. Enjoy Chirico's badassery.
see your mistake is thinking that a scopedog is designed to protect the inhabitant. iirc they're intentionally filled with incredibly explosive fluid in all the joints and they're about as durable as you'd expect based on that
However, since Armored Troopers have extremely thin armor, and use a highly combustible liquid in their artificial muscle, their pilots have a very low chance of survival and are commonly referred to instead as "Bottoms", the lowest of the low ("Votoms" and "Bottoms" are written and pronounced the same way in Japanese).
see your mistake is thinking that a scopedog is designed to protect the inhabitant. iirc they're intentionally filled with incredibly explosive fluid in all the joints and they're about as durable as you'd expect based on that