The U.S. Army's budget request for fiscal year 2020 includes funding to field two "Iron Dome" air defense batteries and the first Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense, or MSHORAD, battery of Stryker variants.
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| The Indirect Fire Protection Capability increment 2-I Multi-Mission Launcher fires a Longbow Hellfire missile during a test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in 2016. The proposed FY20 budget includes funds to field two "Iron Dome" batteries as interim IFPC systems to counter rockets and cruise missiles as the development of an "enduring" IFPC system continues (Photo Credit: John Andrew Hamilton, ATEC) |