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Germany’s Tanks Will Soon Get World-class Protection—From Israel Berlin is going all-in on Tel Aviv’s mighty Trophy defense system. The Israeli Ministry of Defense recently announced via social media post that an agreement reached between the German Ministry of Defense and Israel’s Rafael defense technology company to mate their Trophy active protection system to Leopard 2 tanks. “The Israel Ministry of Defense and German Federal Ministry of Defense signed a G-to-G agreement to supply @RAFAELdefense TROPHY active protection system to the German military for their fleet of LEOPARD 2 ...
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Elbit, an up-and-coming company in Israel, is specifically bringing the same 8×8 configuration used by the Israeli Defense Force, nicknamed “Iron Sabre.” (There’s a strange fad of Israeli of naming weapons systems “Iron [Whatever]”; a saber made of ordinary iron, as opposed to quality steel, would be brittle and dull). Why so many foreign systems? Well, a wheeled self-propelled howitzer is something a lot of other armies use, but the US military hasn’t wanted until now. Many other nations – Russia, France, and Israel itself come to mind – rely heavily on wheeled armored figh...