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GD Marries Stryker And Avenger For Mobile Short-Range Air Defense

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

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GD Marries Stryker And Avenger For Mobile Short-Range Air Defense

General Dynamics' Stryker SHORAD Launcher on display at the 2017 Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala.

The Army could find the answer to its lack of mobile short-range air defense (SHORAD) in a couple of existing platforms that General Dynamics [GD] Land Systems, with the help of Boeing [BA], have mashed together into a new vehicle.By cutting the back off of a Stryker Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV) variant and mounting a Boeing-made TWQ-1 Avenger air defense system missile launcher on the back, GD created what it calls the Stryker Mobile SHORAD Launcher. Boeing supplied an interface…

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