Cloudy future for Iron Curtain APS on US Army Strykers
The fate of Artis' Iron Curtain active protection system (APS) continues to hang in the balance while the US Army decides if it wants to move forward with equipping its Strykers with the capability.
Army leaders recently wrapped up testing the company's APS on Stryker vehicles under the Expedited Active Protection Systems (ExAPS) phase of the initiative. What happens next, though, is a big question mark.
'We are currently awaiting an army decision on the next phase of activity for Iron Curtain,' Ashley John, the director of public affairs for the service's Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems, wrote
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