cool vid of "quick kill" RPG counter measure

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Presumably there is some sort of sensor that will pick up an incoming RPG round. Then this thing pops up a cannister which explodes towards the incoming round, destroying it before it hits the tank. You spend $500,000 to stop a $50 RPG round. Then some protester throws a rock at your track and the thingee goes Skynet on him, turning the protester into mulch along with the twenty people in the crowd next to him so when the real bad guys show up and start squirting real RPGs at you, you've already used up all your $500,000 anti-RPG gizmos.
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I was going to say you should research before posting, but all you can find is the video. The systems over all cost is below $40,000 per vehicle. Rockets are less than $500 each.

Scenario #2
dismounted infantry following tank when Benny Badguy flings an RPG round at the track. Sorry, all those dismounted friendly infantry guys around who just got turned into taco sauce...
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Wow, I bet the design team did not think of a switch to disengage the system.

Okay, so your nifty hi-tech sensor array can diff. velocities. Now protestors get into model rocket making or us slingshots to boost their projectile velocities. Same effect.
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Yeah, those pesky wrist rockets and testes rocket motors. They are pretty bad but I have yet to see one 80mm in diameter and going 300m per second.

I have some info on this system because it is being designed and tested at the Military Base I am stationed at. I am also intimately familiar with another system based in CA. It's base costs below $25,000 per unit with a $150 reload.

If you butt was the one being shot at you would not care what the cost was. You may think this kind of thing is funny to make your poorly thought out and snarky comments at, but this is not something being made in someones garage. And the system works.
 
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