military writes
The U.S. Army is poised to step into a new world of armor protection if it equips its tanks and combat vehicles with anti-missile technology such as Trophy, an active protection system that cut its teeth with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
For the past few months, Army leaders have been openly touting the service’s accelerated effort to arm the M1 Abrams tank and other key platforms with APS technology to counter the proliferation of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) and Russia’s aggressive modernization of its armored fleet.
The accelerated APS effort, and the larger, long-term strategy to develop the Modular Active Protection System for the Army’s entire combat-vehicle is a new path for a service that’s been reluctant to commit to this type of sophisticated protection system in existence for more than two decades.
Now, Army testers are well into an evaluation of a Trophy APS-equipped M1 tank.