The United States Army has completed a Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defence (DE M-SHORAD) deployment to Iraq.
The system incorporates a 50-kilowatt RTX laser onto a Stryker vehicle, allowing it to defend against various aerial threats.
The deployment followed a successful assessment during an Army Test and Evaluation Command event in June, where the system intercepted all 15 target drones. Previously, prototype systems were deployed to the US Central Command which tested the capabilities in field conditions in February.
In September 2024, the US Army held a live-fire demonstration of a further DE Stryker system designed to defeat drones with multiple kinetic and non-kinetic defeat technologies.
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