Army Brass Blocking RPG Defense

Right now the military can put an anti-rpg system from the Israelis called Trophy on it's tanks, but the Army is blocking it. Why you ask?

(NBC) Pentagon sources tell NBC News that the Army brass considers the Israeli system a threat to an Army program to develop an RPG defense system from scratch.

The $70 million contract for that program had been awarded to an Army favorite, Raytheon. Raytheon’s contract constitutes a small but important part of the Army’s massive modernization program called the Future Combat System (FCS), which has been under fire in Congress on account of ballooning costs and what critics say are unorthodox procurement practices.

Trophy is ready for next year and the Raytheon system won't be ready until at least 2011. So the troops will be made to wait five more years instead of one to be protected.