It was based on a widened chassis of the Landsverk L-60 light tank and was armed with a Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 in an open-top revolving turret. To achieve a similar amount of passive protection, a tank would have to add many more tons of steel or depleted uranium plating, placing increased stress on its engine and suspension and making the vehicle slower and less mobile. The first modern SPAAG to be produced was most likely the Swedish Landsverk L-62 Anti in 1936, featuring a tracked armoured body with a revolving turret, a so-called anti-aircraft tank. Trophy adds just 1,807 pounds to what is already a 70-ton tank while providing protection against some of the most powerful anti-tank weapons around. Russian ground forces seized the Crimea in 2014 and have repeatedly staged provocative military exercises aimed at NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe.Īctive protection systems are fairly lightweight these days. But the Russian Army is an entirely different story, fielding a wide variety of modern anti-tank rockets and missiles and several thousand tanks and anti-tank helicopters. Army’s technological improvement of the basic M1A1 design and the most modern battle tank in the world. Iraqi guerrillas and the Afghan Taliban were limited to light anti-tank weapons that typically couldn't do much against the heavily armored M1. Approved for production in 1990, the M1A2 represents the U.S. The Army's interest in APS is another sign that the service is reorienting itself away from the guerrilla-style warfare of the last 14 years and back toward confronting traditional threats such as the Russian Army.
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