Interesting sights at the top of the Taka's

[Hoon]

An APC is only designed to withstand small arms fire, i.e guns grenades shrapnel etc and will involve some sort of compromise between mobility and protection. RPG7s are designed to defeat even the best armour, penetrate 750mm of solid steel and is a problem faced by Armys all around the world - the yanks can't even stop them shooting down their multimillion dollar blackhawks, apaches, chinooks and M1A1 battletanks either!

Some protection (even only against small arms fire) is better than no protection at all.

[Coldkiwi]

ah ha.

So, the question needs to be asked, whats the best way to stop some sneaky bugger from launching a cheap and nasty RPG round at you? Sounds like the APC's would be better off equiped with a Phalanx type gun defence system used to take out sea skimming missiles. Probably a little pricey tho huh?

[sAsLEX]

navys only got two phalanx systems, we only have two Frigates now though, but the size and weight of the system would be prohibitvie to putting it in a APC.

in Iraq the yanks hang their bags etc on the outside of APCs to offer a little more protection.