Hard-kill active protection systems (APS) already come with a combination of sensors, effectors, and fire control components. Being able to adapt those APSs directly to the counter-drone role, ...

Artis LLC's Iron Curtain Active Protection System went through government characterization on a Stryker combat vehicle but the service ultimately chose not to move forward with the solution. (U.S.

Hard-Kill Active Protection Systems are pretty much essential for modern tanks. But during the Cold War, USSR managed to adopt and serially produce a hard-kill APS called Drozd, but it was neither ...

Trophy is the world's only mature, fully operational, and combat-proven hard-kill Active Protection System (APS) fielded on armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), including main battle tanks (MBTs) and ...

The Royal Netherlands Army has awarded BAE Systems Hägglunds a long-anticipated contract to integrate the Elbit Systems Iron Fist hard kill active protection system (APS) with its fleet of CV9035NL ...

APS is just one layer, while high end hard-kill APS systems like Trophy can stop most things, pretty reliably, for tanks that live very much in the line of fire, you can't count on just a single layer ...

RUSSIAN TANKS have been having a torrid time during the invasion of Ukraine. According to Oryx, an open-source intelligence blog, at least 153 of them have been destroyed so far, along with 312 ...