“Trophy counters all known anti-armor shaped charge threats by detecting them when they’re fired and intercepting them with a countermeasure that’s fired from the platform, and basically defeats the threat some distance away from the platform,” said Mike O’Leary, director of business development for survivability and lethality at Leonardo DRS, an Arlington, Virginia-based company. The system took about 20 years to develop. They are currently installed on approximately 1,000 Israeli ground platforms, according to a press release. to provide protection against anti-armor rocket and missile threats. The Trophy systems were developed by Leonardo’s Israel-based partner Rafael Defense Systems Ltd. a contract worth $193 million to purchase Trophy active protection systems for use on Abrams tanks. The Army recently awarded Leonardo DRS, Inc.
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