South Korea to integrate Trophy protective suite into K2 tanks

JERUSALEM — Rafael Superior Protection Methods and Hyundai Rotem have teamed as much as combine, produce and help the Israeli Trophy vehicle-protection system on the South Korean K2 battle tank and future platforms of the Asian nation, the businesses introduced this week.

The corporations famous in a joint assertion that the transfer marks the primary time the Korean tank shall be outfitted with such a system.

The settlement consists of the Poland-specific K2PL model, following the availability of a 180 K2 tanks deal signed between Poland and South Korea.

The Israeli-South Korean collaboration was signed on the MSPO 2025 Protection Exhibition in Kielce, Poland, a day after the Chinese language navy parade and amid the tripartite summit of China, Russia and North Korea.

The businesses said of their announcement that the pact “displays the mutual dedication to ship next-generation energetic safety capabilities tailor-made for Korean land forces, whereas additionally pursuing co-development, native manufacturing, and export alternatives.”

The Trophy integration deal additionally gives a lift for the upcoming British protection exhibition DSEI, which is scheduled to start in Sept. 9 in London and is slated to function main Israeli protection corporations.

The Israeli Ministry of Protection introduced final week that it had withdrawn its participation within the exhibition after DSEI organizers banned authorities representatives in response to Israel’s conduct of the battle in Gaza.

The Trophy energetic safety system could be built-in in a wide range of navy automobiles, with the producer claiming it’s “the one absolutely built-in APS fielded by NATO.”

Battle tank fashions slated to hold it embody the U.S. Abrams, Israel’s Merkava and Namer armored personnel provider, the UK’s Challenger tanks and Germany’s Leopard 2.