Trophy was updated to also counter drones quite recently tho (2025). Also the Iron Fist.
Iron Fist can intercept drones in-game
Interesting.
Also if im not mistaken trophy was coded to also intercept FPV drones in the datamines for infantry mode??
Edit: yes
This one?? hope you know not all merkava 4 in the IDF are equipped with APS, and sometimes they using merkavas 3. If not an APC.
Probably. Not the source I found it from though.
Sure, but this one was.
We know the names and roles of the dead, I don’t think an IFV / APC needs Gunner and Loader positions, nor has 4 crew(or that some sort of ATGM that causes secondary detonations wouldn’t harm embarked squads as well). Or that the senior Commanders would be rolling around in them when they are actively performing their duties.
Also in the originally linked article that specified that an MBT was hit.
“The incident occurred near Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh area. Around 12:20 a.m., a “suspicious target” struck a tank belonging to 52nd Battalion troops operating under the Givati Brigade combat team. The military has not yet determined what hit the tank, but has ruled out an accident or malfunction and determined it was an external strike, either by a drone or an anti-tank missile.”
Biased much? Literally looking at your own graph, it shows that they are middle ground at best.
There videos of Merkava Mk.4 with Trophy APS equipped being knocked out by a simple RPG-7…
Like dude, who are you trying to fool?
Trophy works intermittently at best
Never seen one, all I saw its cut videos and tanks turned off. If every footage from hezbolla and hamas that claims they destroyed a tank, the IDF would not have tanks
Feel free to DM them
German MoD trials attested an over 90% successful interception rate, id call that more than intermittently.
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Ahh I see. You are right then.
I have seen successful impacts but but they were parked, so they could have the trophy turned off
Yeah IDF suck at stationing their tanks, they dont even try to cover them, unlike russians/ukranians. All exposed.
To be fair they dont face the same volume of drones as in ukraine
A word of caution on the whole ‘hurr durr - look at this video - Trophy don’t work!’
For every tank caught on film and successfully struck there might well be many others where the APS did the job but was not being filmed. Is it in the interests of the attacking parties to publicly show the occasions where they fail to get past the APS?
Then consider that it is probably easier to film a successful AT strike than a failed one…
After all, if you are filming a tank under attack - the tank survives and now that vehicle crew clocks you …such a wannabe cameraman might not live long enough to upload it to youtube…
There was an open question as to cite occurrences of APS Failing, I provided one where the event is cataloged, that’s it. Its not about successful interceptions.
And the Tanker wouldn’t show off their invulnerable system? The entire reason why such events are documented is so Caskets getting sent home are properly accounted for instead of being blamed on some other occurrence, like FPV strikes or mines as postulated in the very same article.
Can’t post them on the forum. Due to the likely hood of crew perishing. Which is ToS. Feel free to look them up if you don’t believe me.
couldnt find any.
Just 1 from an RPG shot less than 100 yards away
Look what we started, from the argument being “aps should not shoot down missiles launched from airborn platforms in game” to, aps interceptions of atgms (ground launched) in a real conflict based on unkown conditions. I think this has gone a bit too far. But anyway did you have any luck playing your tank in game?
Funny how now that the US is busted and OP, there is no US is steamrolling… Very odd
Winrates are showing USA doing very well currently.
The core issue at top tier is still there though which better tanks dont fix very well.
This rn shows exactly where the issues are and it is not Russian tanks.
(CAS and SM-SV are the real problems)
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