Elta’s WindGuard radar for US Army
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Elta Systems has received a contract from Leonardo DRS to provide the US Army with the ELM-2133 WindGuard active protection radar, the company announced on 9 October.
The radar will be supplied as part of the Rafael Trophy system for the Abrams main battle tanks (MBT) to support an immediate operational requirement.
This contract has been awarded following successful performance demonstration in the Expedited Active Protection Systems programme on the M1A2 Abrams MBT.
The radar is designed to be integrated with soft-kill and hard-kill countermeasures that protect armoured fighting vehicles. The radar continuously scans the platform's vicinity for anti-missile threats such as anti-tank rockets or guided missiles and tank shells. Once a threat is detected and tracked by the radar, it provides an early warning to the crew and simultaneously activates the system to intercept and neutralise the threat before it hits the platform. The entire process takes a fraction of a second and is performed automatically with no human intervention.
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