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No. Both the US and Germany bought Trophy, the Dutch bought Iron Fist (another Israeli APS), a few other NATO members are evaluating Trophy and also working on
by dogma1138 5y ago
No.
Both the US and Germany bought Trophy, the Dutch bought Iron Fist (another Israeli APS), a few other NATO members are evaluating Trophy and also working on their own APS.
So MBTs are going no where, APS would become more common and more important and the doctrine of now not having your tanks alone without infantry and ISR proving support would be even more solidified.
- sorokod 5y agoI suppose that by APS you mean hard-kill systems such as Iron Fist and Trophy. As far as I know they are not effective against "top attacks".
- dogma1138 5y agoBoth are advertised as being effective against high elevation threats, both Trophy and Iron Fist have been tested against missiles launched from helicopters when during their acceptance testing by the Israelis. Trophy has a +- 38 degrees of elevation firing, Iron Fist can do -40-+60. At least against something like an NLAW that flys above the tank both would have a firing solution. The US when evaluating the system for both the Bradley and the Abrams tested it against the Javelin and other modern anti tank threats. As far as non-western weapon go Trophy has intercepted fairly modern ATGMs like the Russian Kornet-E and it’s licensed Iranian clones which also employ a top-attack attack profile.