Accession Number:

AD1015880

Title:

Army and Marine Corps Active Protection System (APS) Efforts

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Congressional Research Service Washington United States

Personal Author(s):

• Feickert,Andrew

Report Date:

2016-08-30

Pagination or Media Count:

31.0

Abstract:

Active Protection Systems APSs are subsystems integrated into or installed on a combat vehicle to automatically acquire, track, and respond with hard or soft kill capabilities to a variety of threats, including rocket-propelled grenades RPGs and anti-tank guided missiles ATGMs. APS technologies are not new, and a number of nations have already employed APS on the battlefield. The U.S. military is now beginning to include APS as part of its formal combat vehicle modernization plans and, if the initial deployment of APS proves successful, could expand the use of APS to potentially thousands of tactical military vehiclesa complex and potentially costly undertaking.

Descriptors:

• weapons effects
• anti tank missiles
• armored personnel carriers
• national security
• unmanned aerial vehicles
• defense systems
• infantry fighting vehicles
• test and evaluation
• combat vehicles
• warning systems
• aircraft industry
• electronic countermeasures
• ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADES
• ARMY PERSONNEL
• MARINE CORPS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE