Active Protection System (APS)

Description

This project would involve development of quick acting sensors and actuators for the development of an Active Protection System for vehicles. It is to prevent line-of-sight guided anti-tank missiles/projectiles from acquiring and/or destroying the target and may have both i.e. soft kill (electronic countermeasures) and hard kill(counter attack) feature. The hard-kill measure will affect the incoming warhead/missile by means of either blast and/or fragment action by >> Disturbance of the stability of a kinetic energy penetrator which will decrease its penetration ability as the deflection angle increases. >> Premature initiation of a shaped charge (e.g., too great stand-off), but most likely improper initiation, thereby impeding optimum jet development of the metallic lining, usually copper, in the shaped charge. >> Destruction of the airframe of an inbound missile or shell.