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The AMAP-Active Defense System is a laser based Active Protection System created by ADS Gesellschaft für aktive Schutzsysteme, a daughter company of Rheinmetall and IBD Deisenroth Engineering for armored vehicles as a part of the Advanced Modular Armor Protection concept. It is the fastest active protection system in existence, with a response speed of 560 microseconds and can rapidly defeat multiple attacks of RPGs, ATGMs, Explosively Formed Penetrators, Kinetic Energy Penetrators and other ant

Moscow’s recent patent for adapting tank active protection systems to detect and engage low-cost FPV attack drones underscores a fundamental challenge Russia continues to face on the Ukrainian battlefield: armored vulnerability in the age of unmanned strike systems. The patent aimed at making slower, small drones visible to APS radar and integrating counter-drone intercepts reflects a reactive design loop born of battlefield losses and improvisation. Western and Ukrainian platforms, in contrast,