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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 first four Stryker M-SHORAD vehicles were deployed to Germany in April 2021 as part of the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment under the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command. A full battalion will be fielded in September 2021. [56] [57]
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.
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 ...
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. 2 × AGM-114L Hellfire. 30 × 113 mm 7.62 × 51 mm — — 312 to 361 [16] [17] Type 87 SPAAG: MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) Japan: Type 74 tank: 2 × Oerlikon KDA [note 2] 35 x ...
AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, Stryker M-SHORAD and "other systems." [36] 1–57th ADAR 52nd ADAB Ansbach, Germany: Stryker M-SHORAD 4–60th ADAR 1st Armored Division: Fort Sill, Oklahoma Stryker M-SHORAD 1–62nd ADAR: 69th ADAB Fort Cavazos, Texas MIM-104 Patriot
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 ...