Command of the US Army intends to end 2019 year to equip main battle M1 Abrams tanks and armored infantry fighting vehicle M2 Bradley active protection systems. According to Breaking Defense, the new system will receive four armored tank brigades, designed for combat deployment abroad.
For installation on M1 Abrams tanks the US military chose the Israeli Trophy active protection system; it is serially placed on the Merkava. The US Army has tested this system on the tanks and M1A1 Stryker wheeled combat armored vehicles with 2015 of the year. Then test the system planned to spend US Marine Corps. test, conducted by army experts were found to be successful; their follow-up military and decided to install Trophy on tanks.
Thus Trophy system was found to be unsuitable for installation in relatively light infantry combat vehicles Bradley. These armored vehicles have a lighter and compact active defense system Iron Fist Light, too, the Israeli development. Tests of the system were carried out with the Americans 2016 of the year. Israelis themselves were planning to put Iron Fist on the Namer heavy armored vehicles, but ultimately we decided to adapt to these machines Tank Trophy system.
Currently, nine active tank brigades organized as part of the US Army, whose number will soon be increased to ten. Besides, five teams are composed of National Guard. Each team has 4,7 thousand, and 87 M1 tanks and 144 Bradley armored vehicles. Besides, in the armored brigades included 18 M109 self-propelled howitzer, 18 self-propelled mortars, 84 calculation with anti-tank missiles FGM-148 Javelin, 450 tracked vehicles and 900 wheeled vehicles.
