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I assume the US Army has the ability to test systems and determine future path based on hard testing that they do. It turns out they've actually tested the 50kW system against its threat set. Something like 400+ live engagements with the initial prototypes delivered last summer. They are going to do a few dozen more this Spring. And more once additional systems are delivered. Then they will deploy the initial systems to Europe and get soldier feedback before they determine the enduring system characteristics and performance. That they, after actually doing this assessment against the clearly defined threat, have determined its useful enough to not only continue buying the initial planned prototypes, but increase the size of that order would suggest that they actually liked what they saw and see the benefit of these systems being 1/3 of the entire deployed MSHORAD systems.Cost arguments make no sense when looking at prototype systems produced at single digit production runs. Its absurd. Show me a program of record with an APUC before crying about cost being too high. But hey let's keep making these and using an obscure UAE drone program (with questionable effectiveness) to drive home the point. DE-MSHORAD is a Counter UAS, and Counter RAM (particularly mortar) capability. It was tested against this threat set. It did well. There are other C-sUAS systems included in the Army portfolio including C-sUAS high energy laser and microwave DE systems. All these will function as part of a layered system along with C-sUAS, and C-UAS SHORAD kinetic systems like MSHORAD, Stinger-PF, Stinger replacement, Coyote block 1 - block X and other systems.
I assume the US Army has the ability to test systems and determine future path based on hard testing that they do. It turns out they've actually tested the 50kW system against its threat set. Something like 400+ live engagements with the initial prototypes delivered last summer. They are going to do a few dozen more this Spring. And more once additional systems are delivered. Then they will deploy the initial systems to Europe and get soldier feedback before they determine the enduring system characteristics and performance. That they, after actually doing this assessment against the clearly defined threat, have determined its useful enough to not only continue buying the initial planned prototypes, but increase the size of that order would suggest that they actually liked what they saw and see the benefit of these systems being 1/3 of the entire deployed MSHORAD systems.
Cost arguments make no sense when looking at prototype systems produced at single digit production runs. Its absurd. Show me a program of record with an APUC before crying about cost being too high. But hey let's keep making these and using an obscure UAE drone program (with questionable effectiveness) to drive home the point. DE-MSHORAD is a Counter UAS, and Counter RAM (particularly mortar) capability. It was tested against this threat set. It did well. There are other C-sUAS systems included in the Army portfolio including C-sUAS high energy laser and microwave DE systems. All these will function as part of a layered system along with C-sUAS, and C-UAS SHORAD kinetic systems like MSHORAD, Stinger-PF, Stinger replacement, Coyote block 1 - block X and other systems.
