{"id":68907,"date":"2024-10-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/10\/08\/trophy-vehicle-defense-system-gets-top-attack-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:03:37","slug":"trophy-vehicle-defense-system-gets-top-attack-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2024\/10\/08\/trophy-vehicle-defense-system-gets-top-attack-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trophy vehicle-defense system gets top-attack upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JERUSALEM \u2014 Israeli defense contractor Rafael has equipped its Trophy active protection system with a top-attack defense capability, closing a vulnerability against drones and missiles that has plagued even heavily armored vehicles, according to the vendor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafael officials unveiled the upgrade in a briefing here last week held ahead of the AUSA arms exhibition in Washington next week, where the company will exhibit its wares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the briefing marketing executive Ehud Nir showed a video of the system undergoing live-fire testing, with a countermeasure destroying a drone hurtling toward a vehicle\u2019s turret from high above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company declined to specify how the upgrade works or when the capability was first introduced on Trophy, saying only the system had undergone numerous development cycles since first being fielded more than ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top-attack capability is available by way of a software upgrade to existing Trophy installations, according to Rafael.<\/p>\n\n\n\t