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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 14, 2021 at 2:09 PM
The M113 has been in service since Vietnam but the Army needs to keep the ones it has working until they’re replaced by the new AMPV. Shown here is an experimental automated testbed.
WASHINGTON: The Army’s boxed into a budgetary corner where budget cuts would imperil a “fragile” modernization effort, topofficials warned on Tuesday.
The service has already done three years of grueling “night court” drills to winnow low-priority programs from the budget, moving over $30 billion dollars – with steadily diminishing returns. “The first year we took the low-lying fruit, and we got to the middle of the tree [in year two],” said Gen. James McConville, the chief of Army staff. “[Now] we’re at the top of the tree.”
By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 26, 2021 STUTTGART, Germany A Germany-based U.S. Army unit is the first to field a new mobile air defense system that boosts the military’s ability to defend against threats while soldiers are on the move, the service announced. The 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment based in Ansbach will use the Maneuver Short Range Air Defense system, known as M-SHORAD, mounted on its Stryker A1 vehicles. The system will “defend maneuvering forces against unmanned aircraft systems, rotary-wing and fixed-wing threats,” the Army said in a statement Friday. The M-SHORAD integrates existing guns, missiles, rockets and sensors. Future variants will include directed-energy capabilities, the Army said.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 23, 2021 at 2:36 PM
Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (MSHORAD) Stryker in Germany.
WASHINGTON: Army frontline air defenses ended decades of neglect this week when it delivered the first four operational Stryker anti-aircraft vehicles to Germany. The Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (MSHORAD) Strykers are armored 8×8 vehicles fitted with an autocannon and a missile launcher capable of firing Hellfires or Stingers. They will replace the less well-armed, less mobile, and more vulnerable Avengers, a 1980s-vintage variant of the 4×4 Humvee that can only fire Stingers.
“There’s really no comparison to anything I’ve operated in my career,” a battalion NCO, Sgt. Andrew Veres, said in an Army release. “Everything in these systems is an improvement – the survivability, mobility, dependability, off road ability.”
Photos: US Army Battalion Receives First Shipment of M-SHORAD Systems to Reach EU
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Last year, members of the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment - a subordinate unit of the Germany-based 10th Army Air-and-Missile Defense Command - traveled to White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, to field the US Army s Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) system.
US Army Europe s 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command announced on Friday that its 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery, has officially become the first battalion to test, receive and field the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) system.