Having a top attack flight trajectory is not enough to defeat akkor. Akkor system protects the vehicle with an 360-degrees coverage thanks to very high resolution MMW radar. This radar allows operators to automatically track coming missiles/projectiles without being effected from bad wheather conditions.
Most other hard-kill active protection systems detect an incoming threat, calculate its trajectory, find out when it will arrive at a certain point in space, and then fire a bunch of projectiles toward general direction with hoping that at least one of the steel balls will hit the threat and destroy it before it can make contact with the main platform. This technique doesn’t protect against the newer generation variable-velocity rockets and missiles that are designed to trick an active protection system into firing too early or too late, and consequently missing.
AKKOR, on the other hand, goes one step further. First, just like a legacy active protection system, it detects a threat, calculates its trajectory and aims towards a point in its path to intercept it. Then, instead of firing a swarm of steel balls like its other competition, AKKOR launches a single smart interceptor with its own on-board sensor, jointly developed by TUBITAK SAGE and a high explosive warhead. Once launched, the interceptor continuously measures the distance between itself and the incoming threat, detonates the high explosive warhead when it determines that it’s closest to the threat and effectively destroys it. This method ensures the highest hit probability and effectiveness against both older and the newest generation anti-tank rockets and missiles.
Besides, Akkor with less than 1/15sn of a second reaction time allowing system to be effectively defend the platforms against rockets and missiles to be fired from a distance less than 50m in urban fights.
