Rafael’s Trophy is an active protection system fitted to armored vehicles. Its sensors detect and classify an incoming projectile, and its countermeasure engages eligible threats before they strike the vehicle. Trophy is designed to protect against shaped-charge weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles, while also supplying the crew with information about the firing threat.
Detection and interception
Trophy’s radar scans around the vehicle and tracks an incoming threat. The system calculates whether the projectile is on a collision course and launches an interceptor when an engagement is required. Rafael’s published description includes protection in 360 degrees of azimuth and operation against multiple threats from different directions. It also describes a defined safety zone for nearby friendly troops.
This capability has limits. Trophy is built to engage particular threat types and attack geometries; it does not make an armored vehicle invulnerable. System performance depends on detection, engagement conditions and the threat. The safety zone and threat classification are operational features, not a guarantee that nearby personnel can never be harmed.
Where Trophy is used
Rafael identifies combat use on Israeli Merkava 3 and 4 tanks and Namer armored personnel carriers. The company also states that Trophy has a production contract for the U.S. Abrams tank family dating to 2018. Integration on a vehicle type should not be mistaken for installation across every vehicle in that army.
Rafael’s Trophy system brochure describes the detection, countermeasure and platform details. Read about other Rafael systems in Israel’s missile-defense layers and Iron Beam.