Page 78 - Australian Defence Mag Sep 2020

MULTIFUNCTIONAL SELF PROTECTION SYSTEM [MUSS]
“PLATFORM READY”
The HENSOLDT MUSS with the lowest advertised SWaP of any Active Protection System (all up weight of 170 KG) is truly “Platform Ready” for fitting to the range of wheeled and tracked Armoured Fighting Vehicles in service today.
THE MUSS PASSIVE system sensors can automatically detect more than eight threats simultaneously and reacts accordingly either discounting the threat as a false alarm or dispensing effective countermeasures in the forms of IR jamming or visual/thermal obscuration or both when selected to do so. MUSS is multi-threat capable of providing protection against a wide range
of Anti –Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM)and shields and warns, both visual and audibly against laser initiated threats from Laser Range Finders (LRF) and Laser Target Designators (LTD). The MUSS can be designed into
the platforms layered protection as with the SPz PUMA
Infantry Fighting Vehicle and fully integrated into the platforms BMIS or it can be fitted as an applique system with a separate operator controller as demonstrated successfully when fitted to the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank during the UK MEDUSA Project.
Primarily a defense against the ATGM, the MUSS Missile Warner will defect incoming missile threats by the irradiant plume on launch or from the rocket motor during its flight. Once detected, the MUSS Jammer decoys the missile. This is done at a great distance
from the platform and as a consequence there is no
More than 350 Muss are in service today with the German army, SPz Puma
equipped armoured brigades
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