During the 1982 Falklands War, British forces crossed thousands of miles of open ocean, engaged and soundly defeated an Argentine force. Earlier, in 2014, a regiment of 48 Challenger 2s deployed to Poland for one of the biggest British war games in recent memory.Īs recently as 2016, the California think-tank RAND concluded that the British army was “capable of sustaining a deployed armored brigade indefinitely, even if many of the details regarding how remain unknown.” In Western armies, an armored brigade might possess a hundred or more tanks. Most recently in October 2018, 5,500 British troops with 180 armored vehicles including eight Challenger 2s deployed to Oman for a combined-arms war game. Once deployed, tankers train for high-intensity warfare alongside infantry, artillery and air power. And perhaps more importantly, the British armed forces still practice deploying the tanks over long distance aboard the British fleet’s amphibious and transport ships. APS systems will almost certainly be part of the next round of upgrades for both, as well as the Stryker interim armored vehicle.But for all their flaws, the Challenger 2s are effective tanks. Army testing APS with Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Israel's Trophy system protects Israeli tanks from rockets and missiles in terrorist hands, South Korea is equipping its K-2 Black Panther tank with a domestic version, and a shift back to big-power warfare (particularly versus the Russians) has the U.S. Other nations are catching on to the APS concept. Interception takes place approximately 10 feet away from the tank. ARENA-equipped tanks have are equipped with between 22 and 26 interceptor rockets.
Anti-tank rockets and missiles, like the Russian RPG-7 and the American TOW, travel at up to 300 yards per second, making them slow enough to be intercepted (but too fast for the system to be operated manually). Developed by the KB Mashinostroyeniya Design Bureau located outside Moscow, ARENA automatically detects incoming targets at approximately 50 yards and has a. The video above shows the Russian ARENA system at work using ultra-high-speed 18,000-frames-per-second cameras. The octagonal radar sensor plate is visible on the turret, while the interceptor rockets are located in the box behind the kid in the orange sweatshirt. Trophy active protection system on Merkava IV tank.
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