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Drozd is heavy and bulky sustem. If u installed 360 grad it wouls be super heavy and bulky. Anyway fact is that Drozd protected only front. And overall it was a junk system and thats why installed only on small number of junk tanks.Drozd was system composed of modules. You can mount 3 same as you can mount all, as Trophy. How it is implemented does not make a difference.
In conventional war sides are vulnerable. For example, during the WW2 less than THIRD of hits were in front, 58% hit the sides and 10.5% - rear. During the war in towns would be even more side and rear hits.There is still debris as seen in videos. As of safety, relativity does not mean it is safe in general, in fact it is not (for infantry), an APS cannot be. Besides the fact that Drozd was designated for a different, conventional role, ignoring low intensity irregular conflicts while Trophy was attempted to be effective against them. And still, Drozd was effective for what it was designed, Trophy, focusing in interaction with infantry, is not fully suitable.
No its falls short at 4 very important aspects:In conventional role, Drozd and Trophy are analogous, but Drozd is 3 decades older.
1) lack of 360 grad protection.
2) terrible collateral damage.
3) lack of threat indication.
4) innability to shoot HEAT rounds.
All for are very important both in conventional and LIC wars.
Your forces are limited. If you put lots of forces in one place u make another place more vulnerable.i think the solution is large number of well trained and equipped infantry with the best AT to fire at enemy armor with accuracy and numbers the system cant handle all of it
Anyway APS only increases the survivability of the tank. It does not makes it immune.