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The Army also ordered Stryker SHORAD platform, equipped with four Stinger and two AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles, 30 mm M230 chain gun, 7.62 M240 machine gun, and a 360-degree search radar system. First vehicles were delivered in 2021, and a total of 144 vehicles will be deployed by 2025.
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).
Stryker M-SHORAD "Maneuver Short Range Air Defense" Leonardo DRS Italy United States: Stryker: 1 × XM914 (M230LF chain gun) 1 M240 (7.62mm) 4 × FIM-92 Stinger.
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.
The Longbow Hellfire initially equipped the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) version of the Stryker to serve as a surface-to-air counter-drone missile, [10] but in 2024 the U.S. Army prohibited its use on the platform after discovering that prolonged placement of the missiles on a ground vehicle created wear and tear that lead to ...
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
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 ...