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Commentary
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Israel's Active Defense
Systems for AFV
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Manufacturer: Israel Military
Industries
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IMI offers a more compact and sophisticated
directional decoy launcher, utilizing the POMALS – Pedestal
Operated Multi Ammunition Launching System. This platform is
designed to deploy countermeasures with high directional accuracy.
Two pedestals, one on each side of the vehicle, provide 360
degrees protection using only two "grenade hives" that can store
various payloads such as flares, decoys, smoke charges or
fragmentation charges. POMALS has a multi-salvo capability, to
enable activation of multi-level countermeasures, such as thermal
smoke, or Quick Shield flares (also produced by IMI), these
obscurants provide continuous protection from ATGMs, for up to 100
seconds. POMALS can be activated by a laser warning device, which
provides immediate and automatic traversing of the launchers to
point at the direction of the incoming threat. The IMI system can
also accommodate the Violin Mk-1 IR jammer. |
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