This series of images shows the Diamant hard-kill APS intercepting and defeating a test projectile representing an ATGM. (Thales)

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) procurement agency confirmed at SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2023 conference – held in London from 13 to 15 November – that it had begun to test the Thales Diamant hard-kill active protection system (APS).

Since 2022 tests have been carried out using a Diamant mounted on a Griffon multirole armoured vehicle (Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôle: VBMR), including both static tests and on-the-move trials at a speed of 70 km/h. A reusable modular test rig has also been constructed that can be used to model the performance of the Diamant APS on various vehicles, and which is able to respond to simultaneous threats fired from the front and rear of the rig.

This series of images shows the Diamant hard-kill APS intercepting and defeating a test projectile representing an ATGM. (Thales)

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) procurement agency confirmed at SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2023 conference – held in London from 13 to 15 November – that it had begun to test the Thales Diamant hard-kill active protection system (APS).

Since 2022 tests have been carried out using a Diamant mounted on a Griffon multirole armoured vehicle (Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôle: VBMR), including both static tests and on-the-move trials at a speed of 70 km/h. A reusable modular test rig has also been constructed that can be used to model the performance of the Diamant APS on various vehicles, and which is able to respond to simultaneous threats fired from the front and rear of the rig.

This series of images shows the Diamant hard-kill APS intercepting and defeating a test projectile representing an ATGM. (Thales)

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) procurement agency confirmed at SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2023 conference – held in London from 13 to 15 November – that it had begun to test the Thales Diamant hard-kill active protection system (APS).

Since 2022 tests have been carried out using a Diamant mounted on a Griffon multirole armoured vehicle (Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôle: VBMR), including both static tests and on-the-move trials at a speed of 70 km/h. A reusable modular test rig has also been constructed that can be used to model the performance of the Diamant APS on various vehicles, and which is able to respond to simultaneous threats fired from the front and rear of the rig.

This series of images shows the Diamant hard-kill APS intercepting and defeating a test projectile representing an ATGM. (Thales)

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) procurement agency confirmed at SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2023 conference – held in London from 13 to 15 November – that it had begun to test the Thales Diamant hard-kill active protection system (APS).

Since 2022 tests have been carried out using a Diamant mounted on a Griffon multirole armoured vehicle (Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôle: VBMR), including both static tests and on-the-move trials at a speed of 70 km/h. A reusable modular test rig has also been constructed that can be used to model the performance of the Diamant APS on various vehicles, and which is able to respond to simultaneous threats fired from the front and rear of the rig.

This series of images shows the Diamant hard-kill APS intercepting and defeating a test projectile representing an ATGM. (Thales)

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) procurement agency confirmed at SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2023 conference – held in London from 13 to 15 November – that it had begun to test the Thales Diamant hard-kill active protection system (APS).

Since 2022 tests have been carried out using a Diamant mounted on a Griffon multirole armoured vehicle (Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôle: VBMR), including both static tests and on-the-move trials at a speed of 70 km/h. A reusable modular test rig has also been constructed that can be used to model the performance of the Diamant APS on various vehicles, and which is able to respond to simultaneous threats fired from the front and rear of the rig.

This series of images shows the Diamant hard-kill APS intercepting and defeating a test projectile representing an ATGM. (Thales)

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) procurement agency confirmed at SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2023 conference – held in London from 13 to 15 November – that it had begun to test the Thales Diamant hard-kill active protection system (APS).

Since 2022 tests have been carried out using a Diamant mounted on a Griffon multirole armoured vehicle (Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôle: VBMR), including both static tests and on-the-move trials at a speed of 70 km/h. A reusable modular test rig has also been constructed that can be used to model the performance of the Diamant APS on various vehicles, and which is able to respond to simultaneous threats fired from the front and rear of the rig.