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US Army receives final Trophy APS
06 January 2021
by Ashley Roque
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has delivered the final Trophy active protection system (APS) to the US Army for integration on its line of M1 Abrams main battle tanks.
The company began delivering the systems to the service in September 2019 and its US partner, Leonardo DRS, announced final delivery on 6 January.
“This delivery culminates a multi-year effort by the army to study and rapidly field active protection due to the urgency of the threat and the growing need for improved ground vehicle survivability,” Leonardo DRS wrote.
Trophy, and other kinetic APSs, are designed to shoot down incoming threats such as low-cost, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and rocket-propelled grenades. Army leaders have been following Trophy development for years but only relatively recently ramped up efforts to find suitable APSs for the M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley, and Stryker lines. After formally evaluating Trophy on the Abram