M-SHORAD
Artillery / Air DefenseOEM: General Dynamics Land Systems / Leonardo DRS (mission equipment)
First Produced: 2021
Status: Active
Role: Stryker-based short-range air defense
Primary Operator: U.S. Army
OEM Website: gdls.com
The Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system mounts a Leonardo DRS Mission Equipment Package, with four Stinger missiles, two Longbow Hellfire missiles, a 30mm XM914 chain gun, and a 7.62mm machine gun on a Stryker A1 chassis. The system closes the short-range air defense gap in Army maneuver formations that lapsed after the Cold War.
First battalions fielded in 2021 to the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment in Europe. A directed-energy variant (DE M-SHORAD) fitting a 50-kilowatt laser is in parallel development, giving the platform an affordable counter-UAS and counter-rocket capability alongside kinetic defeat.
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