First operation success to Trophy/Windbreaker APS

[Archdemon]

“Windbreaker” Thwarts Missile Fired at IDF Tank | Israel Defense Forces

The anti-tank missile that was fired towards the tank was thwarted by the Windbreaker active missile protection system, which was used for the first time during operational activity. The missile exploded at a safe distance from the tank, preventing damage, the army said.

 

[Paan Singh]

if anti tank missile is fired from less distance,wats the success rate then??
btw,its gr8 to achieve it.

 

[Archdemon]

Well of course there is minimal distance for various AT weapons and if fired within less than minimum range the system will fail to react in time to intercept the threat, but for obvious reasons the distance is classified.

 

[Archdemon]

Missile fired at IDF tank thwarted by Windbreaker shield - Israel News, Ynetnews

 

[500]

Congrats. Merkava with Trophy APS near Gaza:

 

[Frank Martin]

What about Iron Fist?
Is it in service?

 

[Archdemon]

No, Israel DOD went for Trophy APS and neglected Iron Fist of IMI, Iron Fist system was the first to mature and unlike Trophy it can counter kinetic energy rounds, i dont know on what parameters they judged, i remember that DOD insisted for Elta radar which is in Trophy use, Iron Fist use RADA radar

 

[Archdemon]

Trophy

IMI Iron Fist

as said in the video it can engage threats with speed of 1600m/s
what is great with this system that it is truly all hemisphere protection and can engage such fast threats, i dint think that trophy is full hemisphere because in the promo said "high elevation defense"

 

[mnd]

Good work... If it was done 40 years before. The soviets deployed this system on T-62 tanks back in the 70s, it was called "Drozd" and was operationally used in Afghanistan decades ago.

 

[Archdemon]

Drozd never became operational, cannot be compared to Trophy.

 

[nightcrawler]

Drozd never became operational, cannot be compared to Trophy.

...& why can't it be??

 

[CardSharp]

...& why can't it be??

From what I can tell a few advantages of the Trophy over the Drozd.

- full 360 coverage over the Drozd's frontal arc of about 70 degrees.

- Allows use with infantry support (more or less), though I wouldn't want to on foot near that thing in a RPG attack.

- also includes a jammer that may stop a guided missile before a canister needs to be deployed.

 

[Aramsogo]

Russians claim RPG-30 can defeat Trophy with its decoy rocket. Hamas can just fire two rockets at a time from multiple angles.

 

[Archdemon]

Russians claim RPG-30 can defeat Trophy with its decoy rocket. Hamas can just fire two rockets at a time from multiple angles.

Russian don't claim that RPG-30 can overcome Trophy, they claim that RPG-30 designed to counter reactive armor/APS, whether it can or not to counter trophy only real engagement will shade the light on, and at what effectiveness, Rafael neither claim that trophy is 100% fail proof protection.

 

[500]

...& why can't it be??

Drozd protected only the frontal arc, it spreaded a huge amound of shrapnell. Drozd was never really operatioonal, it was set only on small number of outdated T-55 tanks. Seems its performance was not good so after few years these tanks were scrapped and no additional tanks were fet with it.

Russians claim RPG-30 can defeat Trophy with its decoy rocket. Hamas can just fire two rockets at a time from multiple angles.

Trophy can counter two rocjets simultaneously.