Iron Fist on Cv90 Photo BAE Systems Hägglunds
Israel’s Elbit Systems has been awarded a $130 million defense contract to supply Iron Fist Active Protection Systems (APS) to BAE Systems Hägglunds. These systems will be integrated into the CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) for an undisclosed European customer. The project is expected to span five and a half years.
The CV90 is a versatile and highly protected tracked armored vehicle produced by BAE Systems Hägglunds. It’s primarily used as an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) but can be configured for various roles like reconnaissance, anti-tank, and command and control.
BAE Systems Hägglunds focuses on the provision and upgrade of vehicle systems for military and civil applications. These include world-leading combat vehicles, armored engineering vehicles and armored personnel carriers. Supporting our customers and the users during operational service is key and we provide a wide range of services to customers worldwide, including, modernization services from simple to complex vehicle upgrades and enhancements through to training and simulation solutions.
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Iron Fist series of Active Protection Systems (APS) delivers high-performance protection against anti-tank threats while increasing the survivability of the platform or vehicle. The series includes a light configuration for armored fighting vehicles (AFV), infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) and logistic vehicles, and a heavier configuration for main battle tanks (MBT). The solutions provide interception of anti-tank threats by precise-detection technologies and capabilities to detect, identify, classify the threat, and respond to hostile fire threats in various engagement scenarios, all without endangering the operators or harming the defending platforms. The Iron Fist APS utilizes a blast interceptor to defeat the threat without initiating its warhead.
The system provides armored platforms with 360-degree protection from a wide variety of anti-armor threats, such as Anti-Tank Rockets (ATR), Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM), UAS and Loitering threats, in both open terrain and complex urban environments.
Yehuda (Udi) Vered, General Manager Elbit Systems Land: “Following the contracts signed in recent years, we are honored to be awarded this important contract by BAE Systems Hägglunds for a European country. Elbit Systems’ Iron Fist Active Protection Systems have once again been selected by a leading OEM and an advanced military, as an innovative solution to protect armored platforms and troops, assisting them in accomplishing their missions safely.”
