Trophy Demo - March 2006

Trophy successfully defeating RPG at NSWCDD, Virginia. March 2006

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Trophy
• Stryker
• APS

[StrykerDemo]

Oh that's right...it's so much worse than the 150m ring of collateral damage from ARAT1 and ARAT2?

[USMCkid89]

i mean i wish the Trophy contractors reached the US ARMY before the others did.

the US ARMY turned down the trophy system stating they have one of their own that they are testing even though the Trophy was %100 tested and ready.

they are assholes if you ask me.

[StrykerDemo]

@USMCkid89 yeah...they chose Raytheon's Quick Kill system which in 2006 was supposed to be ready in 2011, but at AUSA in 2009 that date moved to 2017...

[Rastakzzz]

But the projectile was not aimed at the vehicle! And the detonator is still intact, it wasnt hit (if it would, it would explode)! If the RPG had hit the vehicle it could do serious damage. This is not a successful interception, what if there would be people behind that vehicle or a car, and the RPG hits them at speed over 300m/s?? at this speed it does not need to explode at all to penetrate up to 100mm of armor or kill someone!

[StrykerDemo]

The detonator is not intact, it has been hit and neutralized to avoid detonation. If there are people standing around getting RPG's shot at them, they are just plain old stupid. In case you didn't know, RPG's are designed to kill. And FYI, they don't penetrate 100mm of armor. Please get your facts straight before you comment again.

[Rastakzzz]

and? the projectile wasn't intercepted, was a lil flash, but nothin' happened to it. It just missed! The projectile wasnt actually aimed at the vehicle, look at the shadow!!! LOL

[StrykerDemo]

The projectile was intercepted and neutralized. I'm not going to sit her and have a little tug of war with you, but I saw the defeated RPG after the test and unless it pierced itself, I would have to say that it was not a miss.

[drdlalezari]

The US army tested this system in the USA and it was 30 for 30. amazing. the only flaw was that it hit one of the RPG tails instead of the head.

[sunac]

I'd hate to be dismounted infantry around that thing. Ouch.

[ORKSIZDABEST]

@StrykerDemo 150m collateral? That's a fuel air bomb.

[adir999]

@HYPERSONICTOW

trophy wasnt on the Israeli tank in lebanon war 2.

plus Israel destroyed half of beirut id say its a win.

[adir999]

@StrykerDemo

there is one even better now

called iron fist check it out

[ouwat4life]

Are these affective against IED's?

[007sofian]

powerful + cost-full

[serpent60]

The problem with Trophy is that is uses a shotgun style projectile to disable the detonator on the incoming RPG, so not only can Trophy cause collateral damage in itself, it leaves unexploded ordnance lying around

[Correnos]

@heavy246 that was the system firing. it doesn't neutralize the missiles with magic, it uses its own explosions (obviously causing much less damage than the missiles themselves)