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Gainey: Sustainment Biggest Challenge In CENTCOM Stryker-Mounted Laser Prototypes

Gainey: Sustainment Biggest Challenge In CENTCOM Stryker-Mounted Laser Prototypes
DE M-SHORAD (Photo by U.S. Army) (Jim Kendall)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command said sustainment is the biggest challenge as the Army tests four prototype Stryker-mounted 50-kilowatt laser systems in the Middle East. “These are just the initial prototypes that went out. So all of that learning and improving technology development is getting put into the next generation of prototypes. So from that perspective, learning, improving capability, it’s doing really what we designed it to do, and they're learning about the…

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