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Army

Army Completes Shoot-Off With Stryker-Mounted 50KW Laser Prototypes

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 12th, 2021

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Army Completes Shoot-Off With Stryker-Mounted 50KW Laser Prototypes

DE M-SHORAD (Photo by U.S. Army) (Jim Kendall)

The Army has completed a combat shoot-off with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon Technologies’ [RTX] Directed Energy Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) prototypes, which are Strykers integrated with a 50-kilowatt laser, as the service readies to select a vendor for initial fielding in 2022. The event, which took place at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, concluded in late July and included training soldiers on the equipment, running through combat scenarios against simulated threats and discussing the potential to apply DE…

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