Heavy Industries Taxila to Develop Active Protection System (APS) for Tanks

A ‘soft-kill’ system goals to deprecate a munition’s seeker with smoke or directional infrared emitters, whereas a ‘hard-kill’ answer will intention to intercept or destroy the menace. APS with hard-kill measures can launch their very own munitions on the incoming munition or fireplace explosively shaped penetrators on the nearing munition. 

ARDIC is in search of a ‘lab measurement unit’, a ‘radar emulator unit’, and two ‘radar sensing models’. Based mostly on the tender’s particulars, evidently ARDIC is planning to make use of a radar for the sensor portion of the APS. The threat-neutralizing piece of the APS just isn’t but identified, however at present, nearly all of radar-based APS options can leverage both one or collectively.

It’s not identified if ARDIC is growing the APS to be used on the Pakistan Military’s (PA) MBTs, just like the VT-4 Haider and al-Khalid-series, or for an abroad buyer. Nonetheless, one of many targets of the Haider MBT program has been to steadily indigenize its subsystems in order to contain extra of the home business into its manufacturing course of. 

Up to now, ARDIC has developed an authentic fireplace management system (FCS) and gun management system (GCS) for the Haider. HIT additionally manufactures all the gun system of the Haider. Thus, the ARDIC APS program could possibly be a further step within the course in the direction of localizing extra of the Haider.