IDF Selects IMI's Iron Fist Active Protection System for the New NAMER Heavy APC

PR Log (Press Release) – Jun 16, 2009 – IDF Selects IMI's Iron Fist Active Protection System as the APS for the new Israeli Army NAMER Armor
Personnel Carrier
Deputy Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces (IDF), General Dan Harel, recently selected IMI's Iron Fist
system as the Active Protection System (APS) for the IDF new "NAMER" (Hebrew for Tiger) heavy
Armored Personnel Carrier.
Iron Fist system, now in advanced development stage, has the unique capability of protecting Armored
Personnel Carriers (APCs), tanks and other platforms in the modern battlefield, from all types of anti-tank
threats, including rocket ammunitions (ATRs) like RPG, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) and tank
rounds.
Iron Fist system comprises of 3 main components:
• Sensitive radar and IR sensors, capable of detecting and tracking threats fired towards the protected
platform.
• System main computer, that processes the sensors' data, identifies the threat and selects the proper mode
of operation to neutralize it.
• Two layers of counter-measures mounted on traversing launcher:
1. Soft-Kill: Electro-optical jamming device, which makes anti-tank missiles divert from their trajectory
and miss their target.
2. Hard-Kill: Blast interceptors that explode in the proximity of the threat and neutralizing it. The process
of neutralizing threats lasts a fraction of a second only, and is performed without any intervention by the
APC or tank crew.
Iron Fist system provides the crew with additional operational capabilities. The system addresses enemy
launch-post location, enabling the crew to react immediately and effectively to enemy fire.
The system's relatively light weight, dimensions and modular design enables to adapt it to a whole range of
light and armored vehicles, like Hummers, light armor vehicles, armored personnel carriers, tanks and even
ships.
The Iron Fist system is modular designed in order to allow future integration of technological capabilities
and systems, compatible with different war scenarios in the environment of the modern battlefield.