Rafael has delivered the final Trophy active protection system (APS) to the four Armored brigade combat teams US Army. The company began delivering the systems to the service in September 2019 and its US partner, Leonardo DRS, announced final delivery on 6 January.
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Received the...
activeprotectionsystem
cold war ii
hard kill systemhard-killactiveprotectionsystemhard-kill countermeasures
hard-kill measures
post-cold war
tank design
Well, this was an early Western hard kill APS of the most obvious kind.
A remotely controlled (twin) machinegun turret on top of the tank turret roof with its own sensor, shooting at incoming missiles.
A kind of Vulcan Phalanx CIWS for tanks.
I understand that a millimetric radar would cost a...
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