Terrorists love hand-held rocket weapons. They offer a lot of punch in a small package and are very difficult to defend. For the first time ever, a miniature Trophy system mounted on an IDF tank has
automatically intercepted a Rocket Propelled Grenade attack.
It happened so quickly and functioned so flawlessly that the IDF tank crews doing routine duties last Tuesday near the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip frontline didn't even notice anything unusual.
They didn't immediately realize that they had just witnessed history in the making and that the lives of a fourman crew had been spared when the miniature Trophy system, fixed onto all tanks in the Gaza sector, recognized that a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) had been launched at one of the tanks.
Trophy intercepted the RPG with a neutralizer and blew up the incoming projectile in mid-air, with no harm wrought to either the tank or to the corpsmen in its belly.
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