Posted: 4/2/2010 8:04:03 PM EDT
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_tanks_of_the_future_3
Be awesome if it works |
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There are a number of such hard-kill APSs in existance, and the article is wrong in a couple of respects. Trophy is simply the first to enter widescale service in the West. The first such APS to enter service was Drozd, fitted to a small number of Soviet tanks in the 1970s and 1980s. Arena was the follow-on to that, which has been available on Russian tanks for the last few years. The latest Russian generation is Zaslon. Israel also has a second system, called Iron Fist, designed for lighter vehicles and which works under a slightly different principle. The German system is called AWiSS.
There have been some demands for US vehicles to be fitted with Trophy, but the Powers-that-Are are waiting for Raytheon's version(Quick Kill) to finish development. NTM |
