IM-SHORAD system completes testing on White Sands Missile Range

February 11, 2021

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Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment are wrapping up a long testing and training mission at White Sands Missile Range.

The unit has been attached to the Initial Maneuver Short Range Air Defense Program since the summer, with the effort closing with an award ceremony held Dec. 3 on White Sands Missile Range. Following a few final short field exercises, the unit will begin the process of returning to Germany and preparing the rest of the 5-4 ADA to receive the system and begin putting it into use.

As a new air defense system the Soldiers have been training on the use of the system, and conducting a final round of operational assessments, to conduct a kind of final quality control review before the weapons system is finalized and delivered to Army air defense units for use in future operations.

“The Soldiers provided valuable input for us to take back and make improvements for the future of the system,” said Lt. Col. Michael Bryant, MSHORAD action officer for the Air and Missile Defense Cross Functional Team “They also had some very good successful engagements with the Hellfire missiles making huge progress for the Army.”

IM-SHORAD is a Stryker-mounted air defense platform, providing the Army with a replacement to the legacy Avenger system. Better armored, better armed, and more mobile than the system it’s replacing the IM-SHORAD is going to provide the Soldier with a flexible air defense solution that can keep up with a unit on the move, closing out a vulnerability as the use of low altitude threats like helicopters and small drones is on the rise…

 

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