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, ...

After decades of research, the Army has decided to do a wide rollout of active-protection systems for Abrams tanks. The systems are designed to thwart incoming antitank missiles and other projectiles.

More than 250 of the U.S. Army’s Abrams tanks will be equipped with a system designed to sense and destroy incoming anti-tank warheads. Breaking Defense reports the U.S. Army, as part of its 2019 ...

A new video from Russia shows a main battle tank defending itself from an anti-tank rocket. The tank’s active protection system (APS) detects the incoming rocket and launches an interceptor round, ...

The U.S. Army will test a German active protection system to defend its armored vehicles from anti-tank rockets. This marks a European entrant into a U.S. market that has been dominated by Israeli ...

Marines fire an M1A1 Abrams tank during a low-light live-fire exercise near Kankaanpaa, Finland, May 16. (Staff Sgt. Marcin Platek/Marine Corps) In order to counter the proliferation of anti-tank ...

Foreign militaries have been outfitting their tanks with active-protection systems, which are designed to fend off enemy fire. The US Army has been evaluating APS for some time, and now it hopes to ...

The German military plans to successively equip its tanks with active protection systems in light of the threat posed by modern anti-tank weapons. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP via Getty Images) COLOGNE, ...

Israeli army soldiers ride in the turret of a Merkava battle tank deploying along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 13, 2023. The protection and counter-punch offered by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New video footage from the ongoing conflict in Gaza offers an especially good look at Israel's Trophy active protection system in ...

Nearly all of the K2 components are produced locally, beginning with the tank’s CN08 main gun. Israeli defense firm Rafael just penned a historic agreement with South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem to install ...

The VT-5, China North Industries Corporation’s (Norinco) export version of its new ZTQ light tank, also known as the ZTQ-15 or Type 15, will be equipped with a new active protection system and new ...