US Army shuns system to combat RPGs - NBC News

[dotdotv]

Well, here it is, 2011, where are you Ratheon??

[commnter10]

It must have been between 2000 and 2003, there was a news report on it, like on 20/20, 48 hours, or 60 minutes. An inventor created an airbag which absorbed a very high percentage of a bomb blast. The military was not too interested in it. Sure, it won't work against a whole pile of artillery shells, but would work against alot of smaller explosion. This was before IED became a common term in the news. This guy had invented the airbags for armored limous and other cars.

[vhagler]

This is a bunch of bullcrap. That trophy system looks like it would work to stop the RPG from hitting the vehicle but the explosion that occurs at a distance outside the vehicle would be more deadly. By exploding the RPG away from the vehicle it enables anyone outside of the hatch to be hit with schrapnel. Troops on the ground would risk being hurt. Troops would either turn the system off or would still be exposed to the blast. Good job army for not wasting money on this system.

[XxXPenrdXxX]

@vhagler that what I was thinking too also shrapnel is bad but isn't that bad an explosion alone can kill people

[LevTrotsky1917]

New RPG like the RPG 30 can defeat trophy according to Russian military.

[TruthApple88]

Perhaps the Americans have finally realised their pot of Army gold has a bottom?

[commnter10]

They did the same thing with the airbags. A guy invented airbags to protect against roadside bombs. Extremely effective. Ignored by the Army.

Don't forget it was Army hiearchy b.s. that prevented the use of smoke at Omaha Beach. That was not an operation to be proud of, all the b.s. about our brave troops storming ashore attacking the enemy. They were murdered by the Army brass who wouldn't use such things as smoke and flailing anti-mine equipment on tanks.

[vhagler]

@commnter10 Air bags that would stop IEDS. Haha that is laughable, you must not know what getting hit by an IED is like. If that technology could work the Army would be all over it because it's a lot easier to outfit HMMVVs with airbags than retrofit them to handle the weight of armor.

[IDFArmor]

U.S. armed forces will now have their light APCs and ATVs outfitted with a lightweight version of trophy

hopefully this will save lives, too bad it took so long

[Armand308]

lol using russian defence system against russian rockets :D

[kwarius]

Throfy is badly copied from russian ARENA active defence system which was created in 1990's, first tank's active defence system was created in USSR in 1960's

[IsraeliXdude]

@kwarius Put aside copy issue, why badly? are you familiar with both systems?

[askdhuwuw]

Another Zionist Imperialist Conspiracy Jewish controlled media propaganda??

[Jubzin]

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[yairbe5]

i feel bad for you yanks army cares about helping a company make more money then about the lifes of american soldiers? shit thts horriable

and i wouldn't count on it going into service development on it is stuck probebly because of the fact that it takes half a street along with every RPG and even if it was ready by 2011 it wouldnt go in to service atlist until 2015

[botchedonce]

Money, money, money, money, money, money! The US leaders love MONEY!!

[turbox405]

This Kotchman General is a fucking idiot.

[KresTKroVee]

Obama wants to kill your troops so islam can take over. Wake up America!

[turbox405]

KresTKroVee you are a complete idiot, an ignorant.

[cedricalien]

don't join the army! they'll just screw u.

[drugstorecowboy420]

how is it that we have had this in development for about 8 years now, isreal already has an effective version, and ours is estimated for two years from now? that just dont make a lick of sense to me.

[SapperK9]

C'mon West Point wankers, get it now! Do you suggest the IDF are fools?

Can't be, their officers do not graduate from West Point, and are not trained politicians, but fighting forces led by officers who lead from the sharp end and value their most important asset, the soldier, unlike USA attitude to its Canon fodder...

[KhaledCanada08]

The Pentagon has many experts and they certainly know better. For instance, no. 1 problem for troops in Afghanistan/Iraq is not really the RPG issue as this report is claiming, it is the IED. The capacity of the Trophy system to detain IED problems -despite the claim that it provides a 360 degrees shield protection- is a debatable point. The US army knows the magnitude of threat and how to come up with better strategies to handle it rather than just giving some random cash to Rafael labs.

[Conservativepacheat]

nbc is haters

[Conservativepacheat]

WE NEED IT NOW WHATS UP??

[Datboi331]

Dragonskin failed..... full stop end of story. This system is not for COIN operations if you need to look it up do it. But COIN is the strategy that we switched two and this is not part of it.

[subjectzer0]

just like dragon skin.. the army is on bed with us companies that dont have the best technology. this shit disgusts me... capitalism before the country. money over lives.

[saskel2000]

the only sensible answer here. The army doesn't care about troop safety so long as it stays within a small percentage. Everything else is bureaucracy and profiteering for control interest groups

[cedricalien]

like everything else, it always comes down to money.

[TruthAddict3000]

@subjectzer0 Sounds more like crony capitalism. If it were real capitalism, those babies would have been bought, instead it's about back deals and bribery.

[staffsgtamous]

@subjectzer0 dont forget that they also wont replace the M4 over the proven and reliable HK 416. Since contacts with colt is cheaper than HK.

[ChewbacaChunx]

There are hundreeds of promising weapoons systems out there that can do more protection. Theres ALWAYS something that can do mpore protection. The army cant buy everything.