RADA's Radar for Active Protection Systems Successfully Completes Tests

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Israel Military Industries "Iron Fist" Which Incorporates RADA Developed Radar Completed Evaluation Trials Conducted by the US Office of Secretary of Defense

July 6, 2011 defpro.com

NETANYA, Israel | RADA Electronic Industries Ltd. announced that "Iron Fist," an active protection system (APS) for armored vehicles, developed by the Israel Military Industries (IMI) and for which RADA developed the radar, successfully completed trials conducted by the US Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD). This trial was part of a congressionally mandated evaluation of domestic and foreign APS.

Iron Fist is designed to handle a wide range of threats to tanks including Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) as well as armor piercing kinetic energy projectiles. RADA designed the radar for this system for threat detection, situational awareness and fire control. When the system detects an impending threat, it disrupts it by operating countermeasures (in case of ATGM) or actively intercepts and destroys the threat before it hits the target.

The trial required that the Iron Fist be integrated onto a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) and was conducted in two phases, which included "soft kill" or countermeasures tests, as well as "hard kill" or active interception tests. Following the tests Iron Fist demonstrated full interception of armor piercing kinetic energy projectiles. Iron Fist demonstrated the required performance capabilities for each phase.

Zvika Alon, RADA CEO, commented: "We were very pleased witness Iron Fist successfully complete the testing conducted by the US OSD. This achievement will serve as an important step in our continued development of radar systems as well as other applications we have developed in the area of radar systems for threat detection and warning."