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The armored vehicle faces an ever-growing array of threats in the unforgiving calculus of modern warfare. Sophisticated anti-tank missiles, smart loitering munitions, Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs), and even simple drones adapted for attack can disable or destroy heavily armored and costly tanks and infantry carriers. This reality, brought into sharp focus by the intense fighting and heavy vehicle losses seen in conflicts like the one in Ukraine, has propelled Active Protection Systems (APS) from a niche technology to a vital necessity.
Unlike passive armor, which absorbs or deflects an impact, and ‘soft-kill’ APS that uses optical or electronic countermeasures effective primarily against guided missiles, ‘hard-kill’ APS acts as an outer shield, detecting incoming threats and neutralizing them in mid-air at fractions of seconds before they strike. This article tells the story of several leading APS, exploring how they work, what makes them unique, and how they shape the battlefield defenses of today and tomorrow.
Developments of Hard Kill APS began as conceptual studies and technology demonstrations in the late 1990s in Russia, Germany, the US, and Israel. However, these systems did not mature due to their complexity, concerns of collateral damage risk, and the limited protection they could provide. These systems reached full-scale development in the first decade of the 21st century only in Israel, which selected APS to equip Israeli AFVs.
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