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DRS Technologies and Israeli-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems are asking the U.S. Army to consider acquiring their recently combat-tested Trophy Active Protection System, a vehicle-mounted technology engineered to instantly locate and destroy incoming enemy fire.
A trophy is not designed as an entire piece; instead, it is broken into several components that are designed and redesigned; an assembler then chooses individual components to make a trophy. First there is the base upon which the entire trophy sits. This is often plastic made to look like marble or wood. A metal stud is inserted into the body of each of these figures to ensure the strength of this component as parts of the figure (ankle, wrist, neck) may be of thin plastic and subject to breakage. 2  One of the largest manufactories of trophy parts runs 40 such molding machines six days a week, three shifts a day.