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I love the single vehicle Mobile #LIDS solution. Let's see if the JCO agrees and moves it into production and adoption into its CsUAS division sets. In addition to the 2 👇there is also a Stryker based counter UAS solution that marries the CsUAS & MSHORAD missions.
The Blue-HALO is a Stryker based capability that fields a 20kW High Energy Laser weapon system for the Counter Small UAS role, and a twin SVUL setup. It retains the same RF sensor suite as the MSHORAD vehicle.
In addition to being a 2-vehicle system, a drawback of the current Mobile LIDS platform is its inability to sense and engage on the move. The Stryker based single vehicle Mobile LIDS solution will solve that even though the Army has not specified it as a requirement.
This is getting insane. I realize the appetite to sensationalize but it's getting out of hand. If someone were to industrialize this capacity to inflict civilian damage at scale as is proposed 👇, "D" would be to equally mass produce things like Coyote Blk 2+/Mordecai, & DE sys. 
In the end, what is being pushed here is still fairly limited war winning capability. We are talking about a 50 kg warhead equipped flying moped that is COTS derived and fairly limited in its strike potential against military targets and hard & soft CM's and tactics.
The false comparison being drawn to "Western" air-defense capacity is also completely irrelevant to the discussion. The "Shahed" threat doesn't warrant those capabilities. It warrants equally scaled production of significantly cheaper, and simpler counter measures.
