In a new video released by General Dynamics, the company has shown a new version of the Stryker infantry fighting vehicle, heavily armed with anti-air stinger missiles, a 30mm cannon and laser-guided Hellfire missiles, giving the vehicle an incredible superior weapons package. Called the “IM SHORADS,” (short for Initial Maneuver Short Range Air Defense) this variant of the Stryker would be able to provide air defence from low-flying enemy air threats including helicopters, UCAVs or ground-attack aircraft.
The hellfire missiles would enable it to effectively counter heavy armour and other ground-based threat in the vicinity of its deployment and support ground troops with its 30mm cannon.
According to reports, the video footage comes two weeks after the Army awarded GDLS a $1.2 billion contract award to produce, test, and deliver IM-SHORAD systems to the service in the coming years....MORE
