{"id":105310,"date":"2020-04-14T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-army-is-testing-a-missile-proof-iron-curtain"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:45:59","slug":"the-army-is-testing-a-missile-proof-iron-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-army-is-testing-a-missile-proof-iron-curtain","title":{"rendered":"The Army Is Testing a Missile-Proof \u2018Iron Curtain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-army-is-testing-a-missile-proof-iron-curtain.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018 o,.,o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The U.S. Army is testing a system designed to protect military vehicles smaller than tanks from attacks. The \u201cIron Curtain\u201d uses a combination of sensors and downward-firing projectiles to stop incoming rockets and missiles from striking vehicles by setting off their shaped charge warheads. The result could be vehicles as small <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2018\/05\/guillotining-rockets-iron-curtain-active-protection-for-light-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2018\/05\/guillotining-rockets-iron-curtain-active-protection-for-light-vehicles\/\">Humvees protected from anti-tank guided weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proliferation of anti-tank weapons with shaped charges has made the modern battlefield very deadly for any vehicle daring to cross it. High explosive, anti-tank (HEAT) warheads are found on everything from shoulder-fired rocket propelled grenade launchers of the Taliban to Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missiles arming the Russian Army. Defeating them is one of the Army\u2019s top concerns, and a brigade of Abrams tanks equipped with the Israeli Trophy active protection system (APS) is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2017\/10\/09\/europe-bound-army-to-urgently-field-abrams-tanks-with-trophy-active-protection-system\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2017\/10\/09\/europe-bound-army-to-urgently-field-abrams-tanks-with-trophy-active-protection-system\/\">headed to Europe in the near future<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 o,.,o. The U.S. Army is testing a system designed to protect military vehicles smaller than tanks from attacks. The \u201cIron Curtain\u201d uses a combination of sensors and downward-firing projectiles to stop incoming rockets and missiles from striking vehicles by setting off their shaped charge warheads. The result could be vehicles as small Humvees [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}