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April 8, 2006
Israel prepares to deploy top-secret technology
This video showing Israel's new "force field" technology is awesome. The technology, called "Trophy Active Defense System" is a top-secret countermeasure that neutralizes the explosive capability of an RPG.
Developed by Israeli company Rafael, it creates a sort of protective bubble defending ground vehicles against RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades). Although it's described as a "force field" technology, it appears to me to be a kinetic energy shield. The system tracks incoming targets, and intercepts them. Trophy is designed to form a "beam" of fragments, which will intercept the incoming threat at a range of 10 – 30 meters from the protected platform.
In March General Dynamics conducted a test with the Trophy system mounted on a Stryker LAV. Trophy detected, tracked and defeated an inert incoming RPG fired at a moving Stryker combat vehicle.
The technology is scheduled to be deployed shortly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on April 8, 2006 at 9:59 AM
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