{"id":56511,"date":"2017-10-12T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=56511"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:42:46","slug":"12-05-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=56511","title":{"rendered":"PENTAGON GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO INSTALL ISRAELI DEFENSE SYSTEM ON US TANKS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>PENTAGON GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO INSTALL ISRAELI DEFENSE SYSTEM ON US TANKS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ANNA AHRONHEIM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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US M1 Abrams tank fires during the “Saber Strike” NATO military exercise in Adazi, Latvia, June 11, 2016.. (photo credit:REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The US Army has approved the installation of Israel\u2019s Trophy active-protection system on a number of its M1A2 Abrams tanks, making it the first army aside from the IDF to use the system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pentagon said Thursday the decision was made following \u201can urgent material\u201d request.<\/span>
\n Designed to detect and neutralize incoming projectiles, the Trophy system has four radar antennae and fire-control radars to track incoming threats such as anti-tank guided missiles and rocket-propelled grenades. Once a projectile is detected, Trophy fires a shotgun-type blast to neutralize the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Developed by Israel\u2019s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries\u2019 Elta Group, it is the only fully operational and combat-proven APS in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michigan-based General Dynamics Land Systems was contracted to add the system to an Armor Brigade Combat Team\u2019s M1A2 SEPv2 at a cost of close to $10 million with an expected completion date by the end of March 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The estimated cost per tank is $350,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

With its troops operating in theaters such as Syria and Iraq, the US has understood that ground forces and armored vehicles are sitting ducks without active protection systems due to the proliferation of antitank weaponry in the hands of both state militaries and insurgent groups. Outside the Middle East, pro-Russian rebels in the Ukraine have been reported to be using Russian-made Kornet missiles, which can strike targets more than five kilometers away using a laser beam to direct the missile and which can pierce standard armor 1,000\u20131,200 millimeters thick.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maj.-Gen. David Bassett, who is in charge of the US Army\u2019s programs in the area of ground combat systems, was quoted by the DefenseTech website in August as ultimately envisioning \u201ca brigade\u2019s worth of capability of Trophy on the Abrams\u201d \u2013 one of the most heavily armored vehicles in existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trophy has been installed on Israel\u2019s Merkava tanks since 2009, and also has been installed on the IDF\u2019s Namer heavy infantry fighting vehicle and new armored personnel carrier, the Eitan, which is set to enter operational use for infantry battalions in the coming year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trophy System received its \u201cbaptism by fire\u201d on March 1, 2011, when it neutralized an RPG antitank rocket fired from a short range toward an IDF Merkava Mark-IV tank close to the Gaza border.<\/span><\/p>\n

The system has since proved its efficacy in several operations, especially during Operation Protective Edge when IDF tanks operated in the Gaza Strip without suffering any losses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rafael declined to comment on the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PENTAGON GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO INSTALL ISRAELI DEFENSE SYSTEM ON US TANKS ANNA AHRONHEIM US M1 Abrams tank fires during the “Saber Strike” NATO military exercise in Adazi, Latvia, June 11, 2016.. (photo credit:REUTERS) The US Army has approved the installation of Israel\u2019s Trophy active-protection system on a number of its M1A2 Abrams tanks, making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56525,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56511\/revisions\/56525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}