Today’s indispensable tool for the Army and Marines is radar for C-UAS and C-RAM - Breaking...

Ground forces and military installations face many threats, with two, in particular, at the top of the list. The first is the threat from ballistic missiles such as those launched at US forces in western Iraq by Iran in 2020. The second is the danger of rockets, cruise missiles, and drones targeted against bases and mobile operations.

To deal with the threat of ballistic missiles, the Army and others have installed large, logistics-heavy but also very effective air-and-missile-defense systems like Patriot to protect bases and installations.

To counter the other threats, the Defense Department counts on continued development of small, affordable, upgradeable hemispheric radars for both perimeter security and vehicle-mounted protection for mobile forces.

It’s the second threat where a company like Leonardo DRS steps in, supplying warfighters with a family of radars that play important roles in the development of a layered, resilient architecture for air and missile defense.

For example, The Leonardo DRS business unit, DRS RADA, develops a family of advanced radars are the system-of-choice for the Army’s Stryker-based Mobile Short-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) system that provide enhanced fire control and air surveillance capabilities to detect and track all incoming threats. The Army is in the process of procuring up to 162 M-SHORAD systems. The company’s radar is also on the next phase of the Army’s experimental directed-energy DE M-SHORAD laser weapon.