---
title: "Watch the Army’s new missile-hauling Stryker in action"
description: "Video published to Twitter last week by General Dynamic Land Systems shows an Stryker infantry carrier vehicle firing off a volley of Stinger and Hellfire missiles and testing out its 30mm autocannon, a major flex of the beastly new short-range air defense system"
date: "2020-10-19"
modified: "2020-10-19"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-stryker-im-shorad-video/"
categories:
  - "Army"
  - "Military Branches"
  - "Missiles"
  - "News"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "Vehicles"
  - "Weapons"
tags:
  - "video"
---

# Watch the Army’s new missile-hauling Stryker in action

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/200226-a-uy615-001-a-scaled.jpg>)

A defense contractor has released new footage of its Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) system from an Army test carried out earlier this year.

Video published to Twitter last week by General Dynamic Land Systems shows a Stryker infantry carrier vehicle firing off a volley of Stinger and Hellfire missiles and testing out its 30mm autocannon, a major flex of the beastly new short-range air defense system.

The IM-SHORAD system consists of a 360-degree Avenger air defense turret loaded up with Stinger and AGM-114 Longbow Hellfire missiles, an XM914 30mm cannon, and a 7.62mm machine gun.

\[embed\]https://twitter.com/GD\_LandSystems/status/1316834012892221445\[/embed\]

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.

The Army had [previously](<https://www.defensenews.com/land/2018/06/28/us-armys-interim-short-range-air-defense-solution-crystallizes/>) [selected an](<https://www.defensenews.com/land/2018/06/28/us-armys-interim-short-range-air-defense-solution-crystallizes/>) IM-SHORAD solution engineered by Leonardo DRS back in June 2018.

The Army envisions employing all of this firepower to counter not just unmanned aerial systems that U.S. troops have been [contending with on the battlefields of the Middle East](<https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/drone-swarms-middle-east-centcom/>), but both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft deployed by more conventional adversaries like Russia or China.

The IM-SHORAD system "provides the Army improved capabilities for defense of maneuver formations and other tactical echelons from low altitude air attack and surveillance," [according](<https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2021/Base%20Budget/Procurement/MSLS_FY_2021_PB_Missile_Procurement_Army.pdf>) to the service's fiscal year 2021 budget documents.

The Army's initial order calls for 28 Stryker IM-SHORAD Strykers worth roughly $230 million, and the service [plans on](<https://www.army.mil/article/236056/air_and_missile_defense_programs_stay_on_track_despite_slight_delay>) eventually spreading 144 systems across four battalions by as soon as fiscal year 2023.

According to Army [budget documents](<https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2021/Base%20Budget/Procurement/MSLS_FY_2021_PB_Missile_Procurement_Army.pdf>), the service[ plans](<https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2021/Base%20Budget/Procurement/MSLS_FY_2021_PB_Missile_Procurement_Army.pdf>) on spending an additional $1.575 billion through 2025 on acquiring a total of 180 IM-SHORAD Stryker vehicles.

It's still unclear if the Army [plans on naming the vehicle after a fictional tank from *Warhammer 40,000*.](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-stryker-warhammer-40k-manticore/>)

***Related: [The Army is officially adding missile-hauling Strykers to its arsenal](<https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-stryker-shorad-contract/>)***

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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