The Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $1.2 billion contract award to produce, test, and deliver Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) Stryker infantry combat vehicles ...

The Army is looking for an interim SHORAD solution to field in roughly 2019 and while that may seem fast for a system acquisition, it recently developed an up-gunned Stryker with a 30mm cannon to ...

The addition of the Stryker-based M-SHORAD system will provide better protection of maneuver forces at increased ranges and with improved mobility, allowing a stronger defense of U.S. forces, ...

The IM-SHORAD system consists primarily of a Stryker-mounted 360-degree Avenger air defense turret loaded up with Stinger and AGM-114 Longbow Hellfire missiles (the latter of which are ...

The Army just awarded a $1.2 billion contract to General Dynamics Land Systems for Stryker combat vehicles equipped with new short-range air defense weapons.. Under the contract, the company will ...

The US Army has conducted a combined live-fire exercise at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, integrating high-energy laser systems with kinetic air-defense assets. The event featured a Stryker vehicle equipped ...

WASHINGTON — A 50-kilowatt laser weapon version of the Army’s Stryker-based Short-Range Air Defense system will remain a development program longer than planned to ensure it can be produced at ...

The combination of Stryker and laser, which the Army calls DE M-SHORAD, can down both drones and artillery such as mortars and rockets in-flight. Sky Sweeper. U.S. Army.

As the 6-56 ADAR integrates the M1265A1 SHORAD “Sgt. Stout” Stryker into their operations, the broader implications for both national defense and the strategic capabilities of the 1st Cavalry ...

Air-defense weapons on the Stryker address a previously absent “counter-air” combat potential for Stryker vehicles, which, when armed with SHORAD weapons, have an ability to sense and destroy ...

The newly created Directed Energy Maneuver Short Range Air Defense system (or DE M-SHORAD for short), a 50 kilowatt-class laser integrated on to a Stryker vehicle, is designed to shoot down ...

This is where the Stryker SHORAD comes in; infantry does not have the same fires or ground mobility as an armored Stryker, and handheld anti-aircraft weapons such as a hand-fired Stinger would not ...