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EuroTrophy has fitted a Boxer 8×8 armoured vehicle with its Trophy active protection system (APS) taken off a Leopard 2 main battle tank (MBT), the company's managing director and co-founder, Dan Kalfus, told SAE Media Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Survivability (FAVS) 2025 conference held in London from 17 to 19 November. He said the APS took two weeks to install during the Boxer's overhaul at KNDS Deutschland in Munich.

The installation was possible after eight months of design work, according to Kalfus. KNDS Deutschland and EuroTrophy first announced the integration of the Trophy APS onto the first pre-series Boxer in the armoured personnel carrier (APC) configuration on 9 September. The integration was a joint industry initiative, with engineering efforts including design reviews, surveys, and adaptation work on the first Boxer APC module, followed by tests on the platform, including calibration of the APS to prepare it for live firing.

On 9 September, the companies also announced that a series of live firing tests would be conducted in Germany during the upcoming months for risk mitigation for all current and future Boxer users seeking to increase the protection of their platforms. They said integration of the battlefield-proven APS makes it combat ready, enabling protection from anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), unmanned aerial vehicles, and other anti-tank threats. Kalfus said that 8,000 tests have been conducted with Trophy.

He noted that a Patria 8×8 Armoured Modular Vehicle (AMV) demonstrator with two Trophy APS launchers was presented during Patria's Arctic event in Rovaniemi, Lapland, in March and had been tested in the snow.