Army and Marine Corps Active Protection System (APS) Efforts

Abstract

Active Protection Systems (APSs) are subsystems integrated into or installed on a combat vehicle to automatically acquire, track, and respond with hard or soft kill capabilities to a variety of threats, including rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs). APS technologies are not new, and a number of nations have already employed APS on the battlefield. The U.S. military is now beginning to include APS as part of its formal combat vehicle modernization plans and, if the initial deployment of APS proves successful, could expand the use of APS to potentially thousands of tactical military vehiclesa complex and potentially costly undertaking.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 30, 2016
Accession Number
AD1015880

Entities

People

  • Andrew Feickert

Organizations

  • Congressional Research Service

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Infantry Fighting Vehicles
  • National Security
  • Radar
  • Rocket Propelled Grenades
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems
  • Weapons Effects

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