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2020-01-07
U.S. Selects Rheinmetall’s Strikeshield for Protection System Testing
The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at US$11 million to the team of Rheinmetall Protection Systems and Unified Business Technologies (UBT) for significant testing of the StrikeShield Active Protection System.
Located in Troy, Michigan, Unified Business Technologies, Inc. (UBT) is an award-winning company with a female directorship specialising in information technology, software and hardware engineering, product engineering and manufacturing development, while also supplying component manufacturing for federal and commercial customers. StrikeShield testing will begin in October 2020 at Redstone Test Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
The Army’s recently formed Vehicle Protective Systems (VPS) programme office will evaluate StrikeShield as part of a larger effort to test APS performance against a wide variety of anti-armour threats. This significant contract award represents the first funded APS testing that the Army will undertake of the StrikeShield system, so providing a pathway to potential utilisation of the system on vehicles in the current Army fleet, as well as on vehicles fielded in the future.
The StrikeShield APS is a distributed, real-time system developed to protect the carrying platform against anti-tank rockets and missiles while operating in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle to be protected. In StrikeShield, the technical requirements of a large-calibre Kinetic Energy (KE) defeat are addressed in the name of providing protection against an unique combination of threats and so providing a promising overall outlook.
Over a period of several months, the Army will carry out extensive live fire testing of the StrikeShield system with the objective of gathering performance data to inform future selection of the APS technologies best suited for any particular platform. The Army anticipates that the test results will inform APS pursuits both for its fielded vehicle fleets and for new vehicle programs like the Armoured Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) and the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV).
U.S. Partners with Rheinmetall
As Rheinmetall and UBT have been teaming up on U.S. active protection programmes since 2015, both parties are optimistic that this new army testing programme will lead to further vehicle integration opportunities for work on U.S. military vehicles. Hence, both firms are extremely pleased that the Army has selected StrikeShield for this important programme.
“We are excited to enter into a new phase of partnership with the Army that will enable the Army to carry out extensive tests of the StrikeShield APS system,” confirms Stefan Haase, heading Rheinmetall’s Active Protection product unit. “We are confident the system will perform very well in the testing and that possibilities for fielding the technology on Army vehicle systems will arise.”
“The StrikeShield system is a world-class mature APS system that will deliver tremendous capability for the U.S. Army,” says UBT CEO Michelle D’Souza. “UBT and Rheinmetall are proud to be teamed together as a partner to the Army in addressing the high priority requirement for APS technology.”
Rheinmetall offers a wide range of high-effective active and passive protection solutions for protecting vehicles, ensuring that rapid protection against a wide spectrum of enemy sensors and sight remains one of the most important requirements in modern military missions. Being stopped by a barrier, crossing a street in urban combat or being threatened by snipers are examples of situations where spontaneous invisibility can increase survivability levels significantly.
Rheinmetall provides smoke grenades to protect soldiers, small units and combat vehicles, as well as multispectral and visual smoke projectiles for the employment of area smoke on the enemy area by artillery and mortars to protect larger units and military installations.
Furthermore, Rheinmetall has developed passive system solutions by applying the latest modular composite technologies. These system solutions protect from ballistic threats, while providing mine protection, IED protection, signature protection, protection from shaped charges and protection for military operations in built-up terrain.
Hybrid Protection Module
Rheinmetall has also developed a new modular hybrid configuration of its StrikeShield APS that combines the company’s active and passive protection technologies in a single integrated design. Displayed at AUSA 2019, this hybrid approach draws on Rheinmetall’s unique expertise as a provider of both APS and armour protection, drawing on the company’s proven track record as a leading vehicle supplier and system integrator.
The new system’s hybrid and modular design is well suited for integration on both tracked and wheeled vehicles insofar because it enables an integrated approach where passive protection components simultaneously serve as interface and shield for the components of the active protection system.
Conversely, the StrikeShield APS components are comprised of ballistic functions and characteristics, with an external protection layer protecting these components against shell fragments, small arms fire and other sources of mechanical stress.
Conversely, the StrikeShield APS components are comprised of ballistic functions and characteristics, with an external protection layer protecting these components against shell fragments, small arms fire and other sources of mechanical stress.
StrikeShield’s countermeasures are embedded in the first protection plate from the outside while also serving as part of the first layer of passive protection. Hence, the system sensors are contained in the space in between the two layers.
As part of its funded testing contract, the Rheinmetall and UBT team will engage the U.S. Army VPS team. Here, their overall goal is to determine the potential of this future hybrid module approach for U.S. military vehicles.
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