U.S. Army to receive first five short-range air defense systems in October

June 24, 2019

Defense Blog:

A senior advisor to the director of the Air and Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team of Army Futures Command, Terry Young has announced that Army would shortly receive its newest short-range air defense systems.

The first five Maneuver Short Range Air Defense System, or MSHORAD, prototypes are on schedule to be delivered to the Army for testing beginning in October, Young said.

An advanced version of newest Army’s short-range air defense system is a new Stryker variant with a turret that will hold two hellfire missiles encased in an external pod, an M230LF 30mm chain gun, a 7.62 machine gun and another external pod housing four Stinger missiles.

Read the full article