{"id":87606,"date":"2022-10-11T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/10\/11\/army-puts-short-range-air-defense-to-test-on-eastern-european-front\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:14:38","slug":"army-puts-short-range-air-defense-to-test-on-eastern-european-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/10\/11\/army-puts-short-range-air-defense-to-test-on-eastern-european-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Army puts short-range air defense to test on Eastern European front"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/10\/11\/first-platoon-of-short-range-air-defense-systems-get-workout-ahead-of-bigger-events\/\" target=\"_blank\"> first platoon of Stryker-based maneuver SHORAD systems <\/a>has traveled through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to conduct a live-fire test in Estonia on the Gulf of Finland, part of an Army effort to fill a gap in short-range air defense capability in Europe initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/road-to-warsaw\/2016\/06\/14\/us-army-grapples-with-short-range-air-defense-gap-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">identified in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/04\/23\/first-short-range-air-defense-systems-deploy-to-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile-SHORAD Stryker A1 combat vehicle<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/03\/01\/interim-short-range-air-defense-solution-will-be-stryker-based\/\" target=\"_blank\">a mission package designed by Leonardo DRS<\/a> was developed in record time. The service received the requirement to build the system in February 2018. It took just 19 months from the time the service generated the requirement to the delivery of prototypes for testing in the first quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army outfitted a platoon within the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, in Europe with four of the first prototypes. The Army is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/03\/30\/us-armys-short-range-air-defense-capability-will-grow-to-a-battalion-by-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">close to fielding the first full battalion set by the end of the year<\/a> with the addition of production-representative M-SHORAD systems, Brig. Gen. 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