The real Trophy system (the one designed to protect Israeli tanks from rockets and missiles) detects an incoming threat and fires a bunch of metal pellets at it, kind of like a computer-targeted shotgun.

The MW3 version just seems to do a weak explosion of its own covering the entire surrounding area, not only destroying the incoming explosive, but also damaging nearby enemies.  If an enemy is wounded, a Trophy can kill them.

Obviously a coding error because it shouldn't blow up vests.

Exactly, or you can toss a nade far enough away that it rolls in and kills them. The TS only really destroys stuff that is still in the air, once on the ground it does not.

It's good to use for Dom

But a downside is if a missile frag or whatever hits and your teammates are out of its area and I mean a metre then it deflects and you get killed for friendly fire

But if enemies are too close then they get killed aswell so tit for tat

Some people say it can defend against stealth if your under it right but after 1500+ games of hc Dom it's never happened to me

Doesn't the ac-130 have a non-explosive round? You're definitely right about IMS though, forgot to mention that.

I think the stealth bomber drops A LOT of bombs. I've been trying to counter a stealth bomber with a trophy since I've been playing drop zone. Not a lot of luck though.

IMO it should be more effective since every killstreak should have a counter. I guess if you hear it coming running to cover is a viable option though.

Scrambler counters attack chopper, AH6, Pave Low, sentry gun and removes your red square for preds, reapers, AC-130s, remote sentries, and ospreys.

You're seriously complaining about the trophy system?

Pred is a 5 killstreak bro

That was an exploit.

The problem lies in the fact that the requirements to get sitrep pro are too high. Hardly anyone uses betties and claymores since 2 of the yellow perks almost completely nullify them. Then IMS almost everyone wants instant kills with a pred instead.