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US Army’s short-range air defense capability will grow to a battalion by year’s end: The Army plans to field a complete battalion equipped with Short-Range Air Defense systems by the end of 2022

3/30/2022

www.defensenews.com/land/2022/03/30/us-armys-short-range-air-defense-capability-will-grow-to-a-battalion-by-years-end/

The service has already outfitted a platoon within the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, in Europe with the interim Stryker-based SHORAD systems, but is now fulfilling its full fielding plans beginning in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and wrapping up in the first quarter of FY23

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