Noticia directamente relacionada a los usuarios de Leopard 2 -club LEOBEN-, pues habrá alguien que oficialmente financiará la integración de un APS, actualmente iniciando sus test según fuentes israelíes....
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Israeli Rafael Trophy to protect German Leopard 2 main battle tanks
January 2019 Global Defense Security army news industry
POSTED ON TUESDAY, 29 JANUARY 2019 10:43
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will test the Trophy APS (Active Protection System) on Germany’s Leopard 2 main battle tanks, The Jerusalem Post has reported.
A spokesman for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems confirmed reports that the company will be testing the system on the Leopard 2 later this year, along with the tank’s manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann.
Artist view of a main battle tank equipped with Rafael's Trophy APS (Picture source: D.R.)
The details were disclosed at the International Armored Vehicles 2019 event which took place from 21 to 24 January in London.
The initial trials on the Leopard 2 are expected to begin this year, with the system’s integration and testing completed by 2021. A total of 17 tanks will be equipped with the APS,
with a unit training and qualifying to operate it by 2022.
The beneficiary unit is expected to be combat ready by 2023 and join a Germany’s deployment to NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), the report added.
Germany’s Bundeswehr operates 328 Leopard 2 tanks of three types – the
2A6, 2A6M and
2A7.
The Leopard 2 has also served in the militaries of 12 other countries and several non-European nations, including Canada, Indonesia and Turkey, and seen combat in Afghanistan and Syria, where they suffered heavy losses from anti-tank guided missiles.
The Trophy Active Protection System (APS), developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, is the only fully operational and combat-proven APS in the world. According to Rafael, the company has provided some 1,000 systems to all major IDF ground combat platforms.
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El plazo para que la primera unidad esté lista para el combate es 2023... en Alemania.
4 años para hacer los estudios y los test.
En el caso del Ejército de Chile, el estudio en curso es prospectivo del mercado y busca determinar las variables para una posterior evaluación técnica.
Esperemos que a través de consultas en el marco de LEOBEN, los alemanes compartan sus criterios. El trabajo del US Army en sus concursos de APS tambien pueden ser de gran utilidad para armar un marco metodológico.
Tambien hay que mencionar que los alemanes subirán todos sus tanques al estandar A7+ y que ahí tambien hay un gap que el A4 CHL debe recorrer, sin perjuicio de que no todo el paquete aleman sea de utilidad para Chile.
Saludos