General Dynamics Land Systems announced on 13 July, that it had been contracted to procure Trophy Ready Kits for the United States Army’s fleet of M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks.… Continue reading "General Dynamics Contracted To Procure M1A2 Trophy Ready Kits"
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced on November 11 that it had teamed up with Leopard 2 manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and General Dynamics European Land Systems to form the EuroTrophy joint… Continue reading "Rafael Launches EuroTrophy Joint Venture with KMW & General Dynamics"
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. announced today that the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense has selected its Trophy-MV hard-kill active protection system for the next phase of detailed assessment and… Continue reading "Trophy-MV APS To Be Integrated On Challenger 3 For Trials"
Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann, manufacturer of the Leopard 2 main battle tank, has been awarded a contract to equip the Leopard 2A7A1 main battle tanks of the Bundeswehr with Rafael’s Trophy hard-kill active… Continue reading "Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann Contracted To Install Trophy APS On German Leopard 2A7A1s"
The Israeli Ministry of Defense has declassified the existence of a soft-kill active protection system outfitted on the Merkava during the late 1990s, 20 years after the conclusion of its… Continue reading "Israeli “Purple Thunder” Soft Kill APS Declassified – 20 Years On"
Rheinmetall Protection Systems, and its joint venture partner Unified Business Technologies, have been awarded a $11 million USD contract for testing of their StrikeShield active protection system (APS) beginning in… Continue reading "Rheinmetall StrikeShield APS to be Tested by US Army for Stryker"
Leonardo DRS and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems have delivered the first Trophy Active Protection System (APS) for the US Army’s M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT) under an urgent requisition… Continue reading "First Trophy Active Protection System Delivered to US Army"
Testing of four different Active Protection Systems (APS) for the US Army’s Stryker family of infantry combat vehicles has proven less than fruitful with none of the identified systems likely… Continue reading "No Active Protection System for Stryker"