Abrams' & Merkava's Trophy VS T-14's Afghanit | Active Protection 

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

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°.

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

Please keep this channel going I will do everything I can to spread the awesomeness

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.

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

This was actually actual useful! Cheers mate!

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

This is unbelievably well made! Liked subscribed

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

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

Superb animations!

Unbiased with clear explanation, thats quality

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

Thank you for your wonderful video production level

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

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

Очень классное видео! Ты молодец!

Great video! Plz make some more.

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.

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 RU-vid 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!!! 🤓👍👍👍👍

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.

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.

You got a sub great vid ,

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!

thanks for video..it's nice..

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

nice channel i love it

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.

Very cool!

super explanation

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.

Nice info. more details telling.

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

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

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

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

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 )

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.

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

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..

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

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.

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

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Nice content , Not biased and excellent animation.

i have a question: can high explosive or frag shell destroy aps and fcs ?

You should upload videos more often.....Love from india

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.

wow awesome.

Very thorough and nice video

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

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.

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.

Has there been real life test of Trophy against a top attack missile like Javelin or a Predator launched Hellfire? I'm wondering how high of an angle it's actually able to engage at. Also what about the TOW-2B or the newer NLAW where the missile flies over the tank but then detonates an EFP down onto the top? Will Trophy still engage it or will it consider it a non-threat since it's technically not on a collision course?

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

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

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

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

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

Never heard someone so sleepy

Can it protect from top attack mode?

...very informative. Kewl.

Best film explaning anti rocket weponery

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

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.

can Trophy or Afghanit interact among themselves......lets say a salvo of ATGMs fired at a tank, and if it runs out of ammo, can the systems on other tanks (if within range) protect it?

Why did u stop making videos. I just found out this channel

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).

weight and cost? if there is any data

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

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

Both of them are the best

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 question is does it work on DU ammo? That's what the Abrams is gonna use in combat. On paper and in use to counter ATGM's seems to work just fine. But I wouldn't want to sit there and have a M1A1 or 2 or 3 take pop shots at me with DU and see if it works

Well if I am against the another tank I ll choose afganit as it provides protection from Sabo rounds however in asymmetric battle field trophy is more usefull

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

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

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

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

Ok, why can't just someone make EMP rounds to get rid of this countermeasures?

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.

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...

I have a question, can anyone answer me pls why they put the name of afghanit active protection system??? Basically im afghan from Afghanistan

what happens if u add both 2 the same tank ???:)

From how i understand it the Smoke Grenades on the Armata are mounted on the bottom of the turret not the roof. the launchers on the roof beeing those for the APS. basicly inverted as shown in the video

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.

Did you do all these animations yourself?

Please come back, your videos are amazing! Also register a patreon, I'll be one

What if they run out of anti missiles in the middle of war?

the question here is whether trying to intercept something flying 2 km/s is a good idea

So does active armor makes anti tank missiles useless?

any such countermeasures in fighter plane ?