Army to Deploy Israeli Trophy Armor System on Tanks: Battle-tested wonder weapon impresses DoD

Frontpage Mag ^ | 10/12/2017 | Ari Lieberman

[SeekAndFind]

[NorthMountain]

Based on the missiles flight path, the Trohy was able to determine the source of fire and transmitted the coordinates to the tank’s crew as well as to nearby units who instantly directed their accurate counter-fire toward the source of the attack, causing at least one terrorist casualty.

My next dog will be a female, and I will name her "Karma".

[ClearCase_guy]

Awesome.

And I think it underscores the value of something like the A-10. Armor may be protected from foot soldiers with RPGs but if your opponent has air superiority and really good Close Support capability, then armor is not safe.

[Fai Mao]

Cool

It would seem the way to get past this system is to overwhelm it or to produce an RPG that travels faster than the system can target.

[bigbob]

Very impressive. I’d like to see reactive armor on the south side of our new border wall.

[VanShuyten]

I wonder if the civilian version of the Trophy system can help me hit more geese.

[DiogenesLamp]

Army to Deploy Israeli Trophy Armor System on Tanks: Battle-tested wonder weapon impresses DoD

With a sufficiently successful active defense system, there becomes no need for the actual heavy armor.

At some point you will just need armor thick enough to stop bullets, and then you can rely on the active defense system to stop anything larger.

This may allow for future tanks that are much lighter and faster. Of course we are moving into the territory of not needing manned tanks at all.

Skynet is coming.

[prophetic]

I agree. I highly doubt that it can take on a Hell fire or Brimstone missile launched from the air 2 miles away; but then again maybe it can and that info is classified :-)

The Secret Service should looking into adding this item to the President security details.

[T-Bone Texan]

“Pellets”?

FReeper Jeff Head predicted this technology almost 20 years ago. His pellets (steel BBs) were mounted on cruise missiles, IIRC, and they shot out as they passed a target.

[NorthMountain]

At some point you will just need armor thick enough to stop bullets,

Here's the kind of bullet your armor has to stop:

[wbarmy]

Depleted uranium penetrater, secondary shaped warhead, plus a third charge inside to blow it into the tank.

Those are just plain mean. And destructive enough to take down giant robots.

[prophetic]

C'mon you bean counters, it saves lives and it's battle tested & proven. Just put in the order for 50,000 units with training and reloads already. We had spent billions on a similar system that tried to stop the incoming missile at 4 inches from the window and it failed. Who in their right mind wants to wait for the missile to be stopped at the last 4 inches compared to 20ft out?

Also the current acquisition system is so badly broken that's why the taxpayers are being hugely over billed for everything sold to our military and the accounting shows 6.5 Trillion dollars missing & unaccounted for over the years.

Again hats off to Israeli tech & innovation, did you know that their version of the Patriot missile is far better and only cost 10% of what we sell ours for? So I'm not talking like how the Chinese steal & copy our tech and you get an inferior products for a basement price.

Even their latest battle rifle Tavor is a sweetheart! I was planning to buy 1 some while ago and now they have improved on it with the Tavor x95 version. Its a Beauty to see & use. The only complaint I may have it that as a bullpup rifle you can't use the cmag 100 round magazine on it though the after market 60 rounds work ok.

[prophetic]

Now you Know that’s cheating. Your shooting really suck if you need one but I guess I can forgive you if you really need it to put meat on the table (wink wink). Just don’t tell me you need a few claymore to bag those feral hogs.

[DCBryan1]

Note to self: When prone, and you hear an M1 come up close by: UN-ASS THE AO!

[ASOC]

Reads like a Sears advert.

Since armor should have ground troops in concert - what happens to snuffie when the Trophy system fires? Grunt smoothie?

Fire one RPG, wait a bit, fire #2. RPG are cheaper than the CM system. Or, since the RPGs are cheap, the baddie fire a swarm of rockets....

Seems to work for the IDF in a limited set of circumstance, would not want to bet my left on it.

[Boogieman]

“A Trophy-equipped brigade of over 80 Abrams tanks is slated to be deployed to the European theater by 2020 to counter recent Russian aggressive actions...”

What foolishness! Our tanks in Europe haven’t faced any actual threat in decades, but those in the middle east actually have enemies who habitually lob missiles at them. Why wouldn’t we deploy the system where it could actually do some good?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Ping

[Boogieman]

“Just don’t tell me you need a few claymore to bag those feral hogs.”

Nah, napalm is better. You get the whole herd and it cooks em for you at the same time!

[SandRat]

All yOJ, military training cerebrate ... start think what changes maje

[sasportas]

This raises the question, why hasn’t our own R&D come up with something like this? Eight years of Obama?