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At AUSA 2017, a JLTV Utility variant mounting Boeing's SHORAD Launcher. Short range air defense (SHORAD) is a group of anti-aircraft weapons and tactics that have to do with defense against low-altitude air threats, primarily helicopters and low-flying aircraft such as the A-10 or Sukhoi Su-25.
The Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the Canadian LAV III. Stryker vehicles are produced by General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada (GDLS-C) for the United States Army in a plant in London, Ontario. It has four-wheel drive (8×4) and can be switched to all-wheel drive (8×8). [8]
On 28 February 2018, the US Army announced that Stryker vehicles would be modified with sensors and weapons to fulfill an interim Maneuver-Short-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) requirement. This is in response to a capability gap identified in Europe against Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
See soldiers knock out drones with Stinger missiles fired from the Army's new Strykers while hammering ground targets with the 7.62mm machine gun.
US SHORAD teams are based around the FIM-92 Stinger missile and its mounted platforms, the M1097 Avenger and M-SHORAD Stryker platforms (replacing the M6 Linebacker). Airborne and Air Assault units primarily employ MANPADS teams for SHORAD; armored units rely on the Linebacker and Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle. However, post-2006, there were ...
M-SHORAD: 4–5th ADAR 69th ADAB Fort Cavazos, Texas: MIM-104 Patriot 5–5th ADAR 31st ADAB Fort Sill, Oklahoma: AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, C-RAM Counter Rocket Artillery and Mortar 2–6th ADAR 30th ADAB Fort Sill, Oklahoma AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, C-RAM Counter Rocket Artillery and Mortar 3–6th ADAR 30th ADAB Fort Sill, Oklahoma
The joint-implant maker raised the lower end of its profit forecast to $10.35 from 10.25 per share, while keeping the top-end of the range unchanged at $10.45. The company also beat Wall Street ...
In addition, most anti-aircraft guns can be used in a direct-fire role against surface targets to great effect. Today, surface-to-air missiles (generally mounted on similar turrets) have largely supplanted anti-aircraft guns, but they may return as a cheap way to counter unmanned aerial systems (drones), cruise missiles, and ultralight aircraft.