This is fine on the battlefield, but can you imagine the uproar the first time this system is activated while a US convoy is driving past an Iraqi schoolyard?
Posted on 04/11/2006 5:33:13 PM PDT by jmc1969
The US is to field test an innovative Israeli set-up designed to act as a "force field" around armoured vehicles, protecting them from rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and anti-tank missiles, according to a Fox News report.
The system, dubbed "Trophy", uses radar to track incoming threats and then destroys them when they're in range by attacking the warheads with an "invisible force", according to Fox. Quite how it does this is, unsurprisingly, classified, but Defense Update understands Trophy is "designed to form a 'beam' of fragments, which will intercept any incoming HEAT threat, including RPG rockets at a range of 10 metres to 30 meters from the protected platform".
The countermeasure is, then, actually physical - a fact confirmed by Defense Update, which explains the system has "an automatic reload mechanism to handle multiple attacks", although that's about as specific as it gets.
The sceptical among you should note that Trophy has allegedly completed "hundreds of live tests with the Israel Defense Forces and demonstrated effective neutralisation of anti-tank rockets and guided missiles, high safety levels, insignificant residual penetration, and minimal collateral damage".
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Excellent
Is this going to be available soon? Sounds great!
Too specific?? Then why don't you tell us all how it works?
I doubt this can be counteracted all that easily. Besides, the first time it's used against the enemy they're going to know all about it ~
The counter tactic to the defense is now easier to employ..
Sounds alot like the Phalanx (spepping?) anti-ship missile system onboard our Navy ships...
Asgard shields?
A few years ago, the U.K. military publically tested such a "force field".
The U.K. military publically stated the field was an electromagnetic field. It was reported on Free Republic when it happened.
The U.K. test had ten RPG rockets fired at a tank with the em field turned. The tank suffered only minor damage.
A few years ago, the U.K. military publically tested such a "force field".
The U.K. military publically stated the field was an electromagnetic field. It was reported on Free Republic when it happened.
The U.K. test had ten RPG rockets fired at a tank with the em field turned on. The tank suffered only minor damage.
This is fine on the battlefield, but can you imagine the uproar the first time this system is activated while a US convoy is driving past an Iraqi schoolyard?
See my above post. It's already public knowledge that is a few years old.
Gives "May the force be with you" REAL meaning.
And that countertactic is?
Loose lips...not likely, it's old news...the test was from February...
"A few weeks back, Trophy, an Israeli active protection set-up, went through its first tests on an American Stryker vehicle. It's already being used to protect Israeli tanks against rocket-propelled grenades.
[In a] Feb. 28 test... two inert RPGs were fired simultaneously; one would hit the Stryker while the other was intentionally aimed for a near miss… Trophy was able to track the trajectory, discriminate among the two parallel targets, and determine which one would actually hit the Stryker before selectively unleashing its lethal countermeasures. The actual method used to destroy the targets is classified."
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002230.html
They do that.
""Trophy", uses radar to track incoming threats and then destroys them when they're in range by attacking the warheads with an "invisible force", according to Fox. Quite how it does this is, unsurprisingly, classified, but Defense Update understands Trophy is "designed to form a 'beam' of fragments, which will intercept any incoming HEAT threat, including RPG rockets at a range of 10 metres to 30 meters from the protected platform"."
Meaning you now know to use longer range munitions, or at least know to run when your first shot is vaporized before it hits. It also means you prioritize finding and taking one of these vehicles intact, and work on a new mechanism to dismantle our armored vehicles... Like a laser activated shaped charge or mine.
These releases of information help the enemy and do nothing for our troops but put them at greater risk..
I have a cousin in Iraq, riding in an M1A1.
and the force be with us
So it's an anti-missile missile? Like the Patriot?
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