Breaking Defense:

Ongoing supply chain woes have further delayed Leidos-owned Dynetics from delivering its first Enduring Shield air defense missile launcher prototype to the Army, a program spokesperson told Breaking Defense, but he said that so far, the delay won’t hamper the service’s larger test plan. 

When the Army selected the company’s new launcher, paired with Raytheon’s ground-launched AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, for its Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 (IFPC Inc 2) program in 2021, it tasked the duo with delivering 16 launcher prototypes and 60 “fieldable” interceptor prototypes by the end of March 2024. Launcher deliveries were supposed to begin by Sept. 30, 2022 but that slipped to the end of year, before now being pushed further back, a spokesperson for the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Missiles and Space wrote in a Sunday email to Breaking Defense.

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