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Trophy is worlds first deployed APS which gives 360 protection.
* Trophy is worlds first deployed APS which is deployed on MBT (T-55 is not MBT).
* Trophy is worlds first deployed APS which has minimal collateral damage (MEFP launched from slewing launcher, instead of huge 107-mm shrapnel round launched by Drozd).
* Trophy is only operational APS in the world today.
-Drozd 2, M and Arenal have all 360 area protection.
-And the diference is? none from technical point of view. Arena was on T-80, BTW.
-Drozd was old, Arena has the same reduced collateral damage as Throphy. Not a unique feature.
-If operational in the sense of term means fully developed and available for service, then it's not the only one by 2 decades. The fact that Drozd is no longer in production and Arena is little deployed does not mean they are not operational, nor are Drozd-2 and others made for export.
Simle: Multiple Explosively Formed Elements hit missile and destroy both warheads.
LOL. This is not tandem. Tandem means two warheasds in one missile. You dont understand what is tandem at all. And Trophy can destoy two targets simultaneously too.
Tandem in all this context meant 2 projectiles from 1 launcher, and the term was applied to RPG-29/30 as we all knew (and probably you too) If you really missunderstood then we have nothing to argue here. Arena could also destroy many targets simoultainously, but destruction of 2 projectiles wich follow the same trajectory and at almost the same time is not possible, as my post explained.
F-15SE is being marketed already. But its not ready still.
Drozd-M and others the same, but the diference is that they are fully operational. If the F-15SE was fully ready but not sold, would it mean that it's not at operational level and not ready/developed? Of course it is, and that was my whole point about those APS.
As u can see RPG-29 penetrated front of T-90 3 times. So it could esasily penetrate the sides and rear of T-90. Both Hezbollah and Hamas have RPG-29. Thats why we need APS.
Apart from RPG-29, wich was 3/5. BTW, all the rest hardly could penetrate even the stripped target, and that test was 10 year old, the test was made to improve protection. Tandem warhs have special characteristics, traditional ATGMs could not penetrate. The point is aceptable damage, not invincibility. What destroyed Merkava's in that war were really wire and laser guided ATGMs as Kornet-E, throught Syria and Iran, rpg-29, very few of them.
T-90M today is only a concept. No one knows how it will be in real if at all.
Not really, just a new turret, gun and other details. It was exhibited some time ago. The pic was just a T-90 with Relikt.