Merkava Trophy Cover

[sebfischer]

Hi,

I found different pictures, when the Trophy System is in use, are the covers still there like here

or completely removed like here

[HermannB]

I may be wrong, but the first photo show a large scale model.

[barthass]

First Merkava 4 tanks with Trophy don’t have covers. When system is in use covers can still protect the countermeasure launcher from small arms, sniper fire or shrapnels, they are lowered in milliseconds when threat is detected.

In this short film (in 25 sec) You can see how fast shields are lowered when system detected a missle:

Атака ПТРК Almas, защита Trophy танка Merkava 4 Израиля

[barthass]

Tanks without cover :

Bullet holes around the shield with which Hamas fighters tried to destroy the effector:

[ruzzaa]

From the net

[Robert_Goldman]

The trophy system has evolved over the years. So many times it’s hard to keep track of the improvements that have been made since it’s inception.