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Army

GD Unveils Stryker IM-SHORAD, Delivering First Prototypes To The Army

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, October 18th, 2019

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GD Unveils Stryker IM-SHORAD, Delivering First Prototypes To The Army

General Dynamics' Stryker IM-SHORAD. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

General Dynamics [GD] unveiled its Stryker Interim Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) platform last week after the Army received the first prototype at the beginning of October, with plans to deliver nine test vehicles by November 2020. Kendall Linson, business development manager for GD Land Systems, told Defense Daily at the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, D.C., the Army has now approved four of the first five IM-SHORAD prototypes. The IM-SHORAD Stryker is the Army’s effort…

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