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, ...

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 ...

Airbus’s A321XLR will be subject to special conditions proposed for the aircraft’s integrated rear centre tank, intended to ensure adequate protection from fire. The large 12,900-litre centre tank, ...

Israel’s Merkava tank was designed with crew survivability as its primary goal. This episode examines the vehicle’s armor ...

China’s light tanks are getting active protection systems to shoot down anti-tank rockets. This may indicate that China has solved a problem bedeviling armored vehicles: how to fit anti-rocket ...

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, ...

Rafael’s Trophy system on U.S. Military M1 Abrams tank. (JNS) When Michael Lurie, vice president at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and head of its Maneuver Systems Directorate, recalls the first time ...