New Israeli tank protection, to be fielded soon.

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SHERMAN

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Translated and slightly edited by me. from "Yediot Acharonot", leading Israeli news paper:

9/3/05-

"A new development will protect tanks against rockets and missiles:
The cutting edge system will detect and dstroy ATGMs in flight.
The IDF hopes to field the sysem in a year and half.

A new development from REFAEL will protect IDF forces against ATGMs and RPGs. The sophisticated system, which will probably enter service with in a year and a half, will detect and dstroy ATGMs and RPGs in flight.

The IDF currently uses the ERA type armour to protect its armoured vehicles. This armour is made essetially of explosive "boxes" that explode when hit. Thisdiverges the impact from the armored vhicle.

The new sysem, which is said to be the worlds best, will intercept the missile even before impact. This will be achieved by a 360 degrees radar system, which will detect the aproaching projectile and automatically launch a charge of metal balls to destroy it.

The need for better tank and APC has become appearent over the last few years, since terrorits have managed to purchase advanced ATGMs and RPGs. The new system, which was put on display at a exhebition held by the IDF at Tel Aviv yesterday, is said to have found intrest with the US military as well."
 
Like the article said its an Israeli development from REFAEL(Israeli Armament Development Authority).
 
This is one of those "why didn't I think of this" things? Just fire out some scatter-shot to chop the missile to pieces on its way in, good idea! I hope it works, I freakin' hate ATGMs.
 
israel will surely pass this on to US for its fight against terrorism... another win for the good guys
 
Not so sure. This device is more for balanced warfare than anti gurrila operations. Because you cant use it with dismounted infantry around the tank. Either way the US prefers developing stuff on its own.
 
The Russians have 3 different systems like this and they are all not new.
- Arena
- Shtora
- Drozd (not 360 degree)
 
sounds like a device that an aussie developed called ( i think) metal storm. the Austrailians are using it to replace the phalanx system on their ships.

it an electrically fired weapon that literally puts up a curtain of shells into a missle or aircraft's path....


The Technology
Introduction

Metal Storm's technology provides a means whereby objects, such as bullets that have been tightly grouped in multiple tube containers such as barrels, can be stored, transported in and electrically fired from those same containers. These containers or barrels can be grouped in any configuration, to meet any particular application.

The technology has no known equivalent, and can provide an electronically variable burst rate of fire, from conventionally slow to previously unobtainable rates, in excess of one million rounds per minute.

The technology was originally inspired by a desire to try to reduce the number of mechanical steps required to load, fire, eject and reload weapons. In a quantum leap Metal Storm takes ballistics from nineteenth century mechanical operations into the new millennium.

The Concept

Metal Storm's technology achieves its unparalleled performance through the concept of numerous bullets stacked in a barrel, with each bullet separated by a propellant load, such that the leading propellant can be reliably ignited to fire the bullet, without the resulting high pressure and temperature causing unplanned blowby ignition of the trailing propellant load, and without collapse of the projectile column in the barrel.

This unique concept has been accomplished through the invention of a bullet which on the one hand expands and locks in the barrel in response to high pressure immediately in front of the bullet. As a consequence, each bullet in turn can be fired in sequence from the barrel, and an individual barrel tube, loaded with numerous rounds and exclusive of any ammunition feed or ejection system, breech opening, or any mechanical operation whatsoever, when provided with an electric priming system is, in effect, a complete weapon.

Barrels can be grouped in any configuration required for a particular application, while remaining simple and compact, and have no moving parts, no separate magazine, no ammunition feed or ejection system. Excluding consideration of appropriate ancillary systems such as recoil control systems, target acquisition systems and turreting systems, the only moving parts in Metal Storm's barrel technology are the bullets.

Use of the Technology

As an effective military weapon system, the technology offers the safety of 100% electronic keying capabilities, the advantage of on-board selection of a non-lethal response capability, and in another form, the potential to provide an area denial capability without the use of conventional landmines.

The technology also has potential application in a range of diverse commercial areas, including fire fighting, fireworks, precision agricultural chemical distribution, fastening systems for use in the construction industry, and seismic surveying for minerals and oil.


~ in fact i'll start a new thread on this!~
 
no better rpg protection then a grunt and a rifle. well ok a platoon of grunts.
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While infantry can clear AT threats bfore the tanks arrive, infantry is so vunrabke in urban terrain that they have to use APCs, dose becoming vunrable to AT threats....
 
Sounds great! Israel allways seem to come up with great armor techs! And educational robots aswell (was trained on a israelian educational robot, one of those industrial type robots.
 
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