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Old October 3rd, 2021 #1
Mick Walker
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Default U.s. & u.k.’s race to deploy modular integrated protection system for vehicle fleets

team of weapons developers, led by Italian company Leonardo but based in the UK, have successfully demonstrated a new system aimed to protect tanks and armored vehicles from missile attacks.

This is an impressive feat and the system was advertised during the DSEI 2021 defense exhibition in London.

The Leonardo-led team includes Abstract Solutions, CGI, Frazer-Nash, Lockheed Martin UK, Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land, Roke and Ultra Electronics.

They demonstrated the new Modular Integrated Protection System, or MIPS, at the Ministry of Defense Shoeburyness range in Essex back in July 2021.

The project was launched in response to the rise and “rapidly evolving threat” of modern rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and anti-tank guided weapons.

The demonstration included weapons that pose threat being shot at close range at the MIPS, which consists of a combination of commercial off-the-shelf and surrogate sensors and countermeasures.

Similar to many of the newer technologies, MIPS is of a modular nature and can be used with the most affordable and best sensors and countermeasures.

Some of these sensors offer “soft” protection that can detect the threat early and attempt to disrupt, decoy or spoof the threat. Other sensors are designed to physically intercept and defeat the incoming missile.

It is a challenge to integrate an active protection system on a vehicle fleet. The US also makes its own efforts to develop a modular system capable of protecting combat vehicles from RPGs and anti-tank guided weapons.

The U.S. Army is working on its Modular Active Protection System, or MAPS. Earlier this year, Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to integrate and formally test an open-architecture processor designed to control the system.


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https://southfront.org/us-uk-s-race-...ection-system/
 
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