InsideDefense.com:

Each battalion of the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense will include 40 M-SHORAD vehicles, along with roughly 270 additional ground vehicles and trailers, according to a programmatic environmental assessment for M-SHORAD fielding.

The additional vehicles will include 20 infantry carrier and medical evaluation Strykers, 100 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, 75 support vehicles and 75 trailers, according to the assessment, which was announced May 19 in the Federal Register.

The assessment rated the suitability of six Army installations where the M-SHORAD battalions could be stationed: Ft. Bliss, TX, Ft. Hood, TX, Ft. Riley, KS, Ft. Stewart, GA, Ft. Carson, CO, and Ft. Sill, OK. Battalions could be fielded at up to three of those installations.

The M-SHORAD is the Army’s new short-range air and missile defense system, which mounts air defense systems on a Stryker combat vehicle. The Army fielded the first four M-SHORADs to an air defense battalion in Europe last month…



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