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To: Spktyr

APS is great technology. But Trophy costs nearly $1 million per tank. You can buy a lot of missiles for the cost of outfitting just one company of tanks with those.

At some point, the cost of protecting the tank outweighs the benefit of having it in the field at all.


22 posted on 10/09/2020 3:08:28 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight

Yes, but Trophy isn’t a one-and-done system - it can fire repeatedly and even when it’s empty, it’s not a million dollars to reload it.


24 posted on 10/09/2020 3:20:17 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: The Pack Knight

By the way, various flavors of APS are likely to be put on all NATO combat vehicles in the future.


25 posted on 10/09/2020 3:21:48 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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