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Funding, Engineering Challenges Delay Missile-Shields For Bradley And Stryker

Friday, October 13th, 2017

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Funding, Engineering Challenges Delay Missile-Shields For Bradley And Stryker

Installation and characterization of active protection systems (APS) on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and Stryker wheeled combat vehicle are lagging behind the effort to equip the Abrams tank with guided-missile shields.The delay is a result both of lack of funding and engineering challenges with integrating APS onto the smaller vehicles that were not an issue with the tank, according to officials with the Ground Combat Systems program office (PEO GCS).Funding authorization for the year-long effort to install and characterize APS…

Army

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Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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