via Defense News.
Following the deployment of Merkava Mk 4 tanks equipped with Rafael Defense Systems’ Trophy (ASPRO-A) Active Protection Systems (APS) along the Gaza border last month (January 2011), following a Palestinian Kornet missile attack, battle testing of the system was only a matter of time. Today (1st March 2011), the Trophy was baphtized in combat, proving its worth in a first combat engagement with a hostile RPG, fired by Palestinain anti-tank team from Gaza.
Beautiful. It's too bad that the US rejected the system altogether on the ground that "it's not a matured and viable solution for our forces." B.S.
ReplyDeleteOf course QuickKill isnt a mature and viable solution for our forces....Oh Ooops we meant Trophy....wait which one is the one Raytheon makes? Oh right no..QuickKill is THE best solution for our warfighter! Yes did I do good corporate masters?
ReplyDeleteGreat engineering. Perhaps it could benefit from a slightly different defensive system: http://www.kongsberg.com/en/KPS/Products/RemoteWeaponStation/PROTECTORCROWS.aspx
ReplyDeleteB. Bolsøy
Oslo
It's obvious we need this system or something like it on the next Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) and the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV). These two systems should be very similar in parts, but different in concept. One should be able to swim (Marines), and the other should be light enough to be transportable by plane. It's all going to be about how quickly we can get to the battle and hold that battle space for a reasonable amount of time, to be decisive. I think the Merkava MK4 is a fine tank, I like how it can also carry up to 6 troops, not bad.
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