A good review. Seems non biased, which is rare anymore.

An unbiased, well detailed yet short video about a generally forgotten topic. Really gotta appreciate that

This is THE most informative video on these two I've seen yet and I've seen so many.

Good info. Particularly interesting because the US is mounting the Trophy system on the M1.

One Major error identified. the Trophy equipped Merkava Mk IV, automatically turns its turret to face the incoming ATGM upon detecting the threat in order to guarantee that in the event of intercept failure, the vehicle will be facing with the thickest part of its armor towards the missile, which is the front arc. it is not because the trophy cannot defend the vehicle 360°.

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Ahh. See this makes sense, as for a while now in places like Afghanistan, the U.S has been involved in wars where chemical rounds and rpg’s were mostly used, rarely encountering enemy armor capable of solid shot projectiles. On the other hand, Russia has seen more conflict in past years where enemy armor with solid projectile rounds is not so uncommon, Ukraine for example. And their tanks would face professional militaries, not just ‘easy to be flanked by’ guerrilla forces, thus the emphasis on protecting the front.

I still think Condom is better protection then Plan B. PS i hate condoms

The Trophy system is constantly being upgraded. I think a new variant has recently been released.

I subscribed only because it is one of the few non biased youtube channels about military technology that exists

i was looking to undestand how APS works and luckily the first video was yours. short and informative, thumbs up!

Essentially, *Afghanit:* It is better optimized for open/tank-tank warfare against a conventional/peer adversary since it has robust soft-kill system and the hard-kill system can defeat much denser sabot rounds with incoming multiple fires. The fact that it is purposely built to the front of the turret with 180 deg. arc really emphasizes that it is designed to protect against tank rounds. *Trophy:* It is designed to defeat ATGMs and RPGs and better optimized for a guerrilla style warfare where any infantry can hide and flank the tank from any direction. The 360 deg. protection including high elevation means that even top-attack missiles like the JAVELIN can be intercepted. Not surprising given the kind of enemies the Israeli military is facing.

So sad that this channel is inactive. You had one of the best military explainer videos out there.

Remark about the merkava iv. The non trophy carrying variant survivability. As mainly was seen in 2006 war vs hizballah. There have been roughly 500 to 1000 anti tank launch attempts vs all the Israeli tanks.at least half at a very close range , urban scenario. Most were evaded or hit in a way they didn't disable the tanks. We are talking about tanks that kept on fighting after being hit by Kornetts several times guys. In my book, that is impressive as it can be given we can see what happens to most tanks getting hit by even a lesser AT rocket in an urban scenario where the shooter is slightly above your tank or behind it. You can all find the entire merkava hit loss ratio and see just how many rockets actually penetrated enough to damage the tanks. Most tanks were up and running in less than a day, and back in the fight. And out of the ones that got hit, mk iv variants barely suffered any . (Not to mention we count the first mk iv that did total loss,due to an idiot brigade commander sending a tank on its own to a paved enemy ,mined to the teeth road). As for crews. You can also find the stats. Most injured, suffered only minor hits and were back in the fight with their tanks. That is, and always was, the true strength of the merkava tanks. Modularity like a Lego cube so you can basically refit the entire tank as if it was a plane toy model. And crew survivability on top of everything. Cause metal can be replaced. Men, cannot. All of the , is Not even taking into account the abysmal way the entire ground forces were used in that conflict (what happens when the unthinkable happens and your chief of staff is someone that came from the air force fighter pilot ranks. Ie a complete lamen in understanding ground battle plans, strategies and terrain tactics for a 2d mountain forest dense terrain). In 2014, there was a much more dangerous tight urban scenario for the merkava's by comparison... think chechnia on steroids. Mines, rigged roads houses and tunnels , on top of AT crews all over the place. And yet. The only tank crews that died, were hit while they were outside of their tanks in the rear. As far as I know not a single tank was hit, and there have been at least 10 confirmed Kornetts interceptions that were recorded as being neutralized by the trophy system. As for combat effectiveness in an urban scenario. The mk iv were responsible for over 60% confirmed enemy kills, and were responsible to locate and destroy any rigged houses , which there were a lot of. A special light casing was used for the latter as even a small nudge so to speak would activate these rigged houses. Thus the mk saved a huge number of infantry soldiers as well. Why did I say all that? Because tech is good only on paper. In the end it's the field of battle that proves your machines effectiveness on top of every other stat or figure there is on the drawing boards.

I love the SFXs that you've chosen, here.

Great Video! So I kinda understand why US chose Trophy as their APS system on M1A2 SEPv3. Trophy exceed on Asymmetry warfare in urban environment that US expect to see in the future conflict more than normal symmetry warfare again other country. While Russia design their APS more on symmetry warfare like Tank on Tank battle.

I see it like this - Trophy is the only system that has been fielded and has seen real combat multiple times while proving to be effective. The rest are just prototypes until they are also fielded.

dont forget that the IDF can also install the Iron FIst APS to complement Trophy, which uses a twin barrel grenade launcher turret that can eliminate threats and can also hamper SABOT rounds.

Thank you dude for this great video! I have found that very often videos on similar topics as this video are usually (very heavily?) biased in either the American or failing that, Western direction. A video such as this, with a fair assessment, honest comparison and unbiased weighing of both the positives *and* negatives of all devices and/or systems under scrutiny is a very refreshing change of pace. I mean no offence to any of my fellow Americans here, but the number of military channels on KZfaq simply pumping out one after the other of the video equivalent of the "MURICA F* YEAH" song is too damn high in my opinion. Not to shit on the song though, that shit is straight fire, but these days one has to be very vigilant in distinguishing between that which basically boils down to military propaganda, and that which is true, valid and useful information. That being said, thanks for making this video bro! Many kudos for you!!! 🤓👍👍👍👍

Очень классное видео! Ты молодец!

How you camper a battle proven system.. mounted on the best battle proven tank in the world.. to a Russian system that works on rumors thet nobody seen it actually works.. non mention the "Armata" tank never seen and mass production and maby handful of the even expected..go do your homework again before you makes a video!

This was actually actual useful! Cheers mate!

Good video and explanation. The two systems are meant for different engagement scenarios as the Trophy is better in an Urban warfare environment and Afghanit is open field environment where its more tank on tank..

Unbiased with clear explanation, thats quality

well now at Ukraine we can see how well the Russian system is in action. while we saw for numerous times how well the trophy system works for the IDF in the last decade or so...

Excellent video. however it was my understanding that Afghanit hard kill worked by launching a munition which would then detonate in proximity to the incoming threat, either destroying incoming explosive rounds or making the APFSDS tilt or break as result of the shockwave. Another aspect that cuold be taken into consideration is that Trophy works while the tank is on the move while in the Afghanit case the hard kill solution would be more affected because the launchers seemingly cant compensate the Armata´s oscillations while traversing rough terrain.

the russian active protection system is awesome, but only the front of the vehicle and half of each side of the vehicle are protected, still it can defeat kinetic energy rounds which is impressive.

This is unbelievably well made! Liked subscribed

Excellent And Unbiased . But T-14 Has Soft Kill Jammers/EW Systems Onboard For Usage Against Radar-Guided Missiles Like Hellfire . It Also Has A System To Break Laser Locks ( Independent From The Smoke Grenades )

Very well explained, great work! Could you please do a top 10 or top 5 Active Protection System / Active Defense System around the world, explaining with animation, how each APS/ADS works and pros & cons of each of them please. Thanks in advance, keep up the good work.

When it comes to tank defense , this 2 nations leads the competition.

just one thing: the reload of the trophy system is fast af. there is real life footage of a merkava countering 2 rockets from the same angle in less than 2 seconds

cool vid, but just a few notes: some of the text that showed up was gone before i could even get to reading it, and sometimes your voice seemed to be recorded at my different levels and had to go back raise volume. but very comprehensive presentation, exactly what i needed, thank you good sir!

Superb animations!

Just found your channel and it’s insanely interesting. Good job, i’ve subbed.

I wonder if those active protection systems can destroy a high velocity rail gun dart, or maybe some extremely powerful laser that can melt barrels, tracks, or at least optics. Lasers, and rail guns are the future.

Thank you for your wonderful video production level

Trophy system doesn't just hit the incoming missile, it also directs the gunner to the source of danger. And besides, the maerkava has active substance in its smoke grenades which detonates missiles and heat charges.

I don't see any bias here... Wow. You earned yourself a subscriber my man.

There's now trophy 2.0 (model 400) already fielded. optical sensors were added among other things.

Very nice commentary and graphics I struggled to hear the voice though

Never heard someone so sleepy

I'll keep this in mind when I get drafted into the tank core in ww3.

Damn that's too bad this channel didn't have more content

The Trophy mk2 will include the iron fist system, Then the system will have a proven solution against all kind of threats (including kinetic ammunition).

super explanation

Ok this is very brief yet detailed. You have my subscription. I'd rather combine the two systems.

Very very good to the point and comprehensive video. Well deserved like and subscribe from me!

You confused the smoke launchers with the hardkill launchers.

The Israeli one (trophy) is also being combined with another hard kill system more similar to afganit (called iron fist I think, uses the single projectile instead of shotgun blast interception method), which should give it more capability versus apfsds.

Nice to see something like this, great job dudes 👌😁..

a video without russian things never work or american shit is too complicated and heavy a well deserved like and subscription

very nice and interesting video and topic!| thanks man :)

Nice content , Not biased and excellent animation.

Im seeing people saying the smoke launchers are the tubes Underneath the turret and the rotating launchers on the sides as well as at the top being the aps launchers

Good video and nice animation but please increase your recording volume a bit. It's much lower than YT average which forces viewers to fiddle with their volume.

Great video! Plz make some more.

Best film explaning anti rocket weponery

Well, who want to be in Russia tank when Javelin is heading to him ? I would choose Trophy 10/10

How the Afganit which under the turret can protect from Javelin from up side???

The Principle of trophy is SO similar to that of the Ukraine ERA. Don't you think? More video's please :( you make such good video's man.

Israel has another system called "Iron Fist" which is working similar to the afganit as a hard kill, but has also an automatic angle change towards the threat path. The Trophy seems to be better for urban combats, short range and Air attacks. Afganit/Iron Fist should be theoretically more usable for head to head field combat with kineic shels. Why not to use the Trophy + Iron Fist and turn your tank into a peaceful man cave space? It's good that both nations are at the same side.

The thing that seemed most relevant for me is that in the Afganit, the smoke is spinning and the kill shot fixed while in the Trophy it's the other way around. Personally I'd prefer a flexible blast mechanism than a flexible smoke mechanism.

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Nice info. more details telling.

The trophy is much more useful in modern day combat scenarios.

You got a sub great vid ,

thanks for video..it's nice..

i heard somewhere that T-14 might get Arena Hard kill aps On top of already existing Afghanit

The merkava today has not 4 charges but 8 Maybe something to think about

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T-14 has the greatest protection system ever: Participation in zero battles

Trophy is better because it's actually been used in combat and isn't just Russian propaganda. The fact the Trophy can spin around to precisely pin point incoming targets but Afghanit cannot tells me all I need to know; and even though it can move Trophy still needs to fire a spread of projectiles to ensure the target is neutralised, this is difficult stuff all to do in seconds. I seriously doubt a stationary tube firing just one solid mass has the finesse to intercept anything that isn't coming directly at it. Let alone an APFSDS traveling at over 1700 m/s. When I first saw T14 I honestly just though those tubes on the side are just smoke launchers. Maybe they do work, I'm happy to be proven wrong but until then I'd take a working system like Trophy anyday.

“You know how the Americans have javelins and tow 2Bs?” “Yeah” “Why don’t we design our aps to be weak against those” “Genius!”

Great channel....need to tweak your video volume a little higher to improve

One is real tank with system which was tested on the battlefield, the other is imaginary tank which right now exists mainly on paper.

If I had to choose I would want the trophy system on the tank I would be in. But that's just my opinion.

Very cool!

I'll never believe the T-14 active protection system works against APFSDS rounds until I see a slow-mo video of that

i would put my money currently on the APS from reinmetall it can survive multiple hits in a row and has 360 protection even on the roof

If Tony Stark was still making weapons: *Working on a man portable version of the Jericho missile*.

Both of them are the best

So does active armor makes anti tank missiles useless?

Correction: The Tubes under th T 14 turret is Smoke Screen The Hard Kill is on the Top with 360 View (no need to turn the Turret)

Trophy (active protection system) of Morden day tanks like M1 Abrams, Merkava and T-14 Armata as for anti- tank missiles not always guaranteed kill, destroy or disable a morden day tank as its really hard to destroy a mordern tank with a shield Trophy (active protection system) Team of four anti -tank missiles fires all four missiles Trophy (active protection system stops all four misslies as I guess run and hide lads.

Doesn't the TROPHY APS have a reloading system as well?

Don't understand why the T14 doesn't have akctive protection in the rear that's not logical I don't understand what they were thinking. It can't be so hard to make the launchers move left/right and up. But the trophy system is also good israel always makes top notch stuff.

Combine both you get best

EFP is very similar to HEAT warhead, it creates a jet of "molten" metal just like HEAT round but with a longer range, not shotgun-like pattern

Wow, this is very informative. Before watching this, I've always thought that the Russian system was superior but never thought that the differences between them was actually the result of their experiences in war, theories on the next possible ones and the doctrines they have.

Trophy is really good for static urban tanks where infantry are a threat with ATGMs Afghanit is really good for Tank on Tank warfare. Shows you the perceived threats each is expected to be weakest at. (Russia is painfully aware how good Western Long rod sabots are) (US and Israel are painfully aware how good ATGMs are at knocking out tanks in cities)

The Trophy is faster, if i were a tanker i'd trust that much more.

Trophy for ambush protection, T-14s for known general threat direction.

I wonder if they made a secondary velocity projectile where if it is intercepted by kill munitions, it will explode sending a small caliber penetrator to continue the trajectory.

The last variant could handle threats from kamikaz drone like lancet ?

The Russian Armata T-14 is developed to be able to stop the enemy army on the vast Russian fields with no natural geographical barriers in case of global war So they don't really need to protect the rear part of the tank as they don't plan to land on other countries' territory

My Uncle: what if I combine it all. So each of them can cover the others fault.

i think trophy is much better as hard kill protection

So basically it's safer for Infantry to be close to tanks?

Even the worst hardkill APS is better than no hardkill APS