US Army brings back the Stinger missile in the face of Russian aggression

[F-22Raptor]

The Army has intensified the training soldiers receive on the FIM-92 Stinger — a man-portable, air defense missile — after nearly 15 years of moving away from the weapon system.

The Stinger has been around since the late 1970s, according to the Army. As counterinsurgency became the Army’s primary mission focus, however, training drifted away from the shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile.

“Bringing back the Stinger addresses a self-identified gap that the Army created and has recognized,” said Lt. Col. Aaron Felter, the director of training and doctrine for the Air Defense Integrated Office. “We’re getting back to the basics and providing short-range air defense to maneuver units.”

The shift back to the Stinger is based on the Army chief of staff’s initiative to close the gap in short-range air defense capabilities the United States and its NATO allies suffer from on the European continent, according to the Army.

These SHORAD systems will be focused on defending against low-flying aircraft, such as drones and attack helicopters, which present a considerable threat to maneuvering forces, according to a memo by Brig. Gen. Randall McIntire, commandant of the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School.

“The continuing Russo-Ukrainian conflict has seen a transformation of the Russian military and the need for short-range air defense with our maneuver forces,” McIntire wrote. Unmanned aircraft “have become increasingly common and important to operations by both sides in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.”

To close the gap, roughly 50 soon-to-be trainers attended their own training session on the Stinger system at the Hohenfels Training Area in Germany on Jan. 10. The area hosts a Joint Multinational Readiness Center for training NATO forces.

“The immediate focus is Europe and getting Europe ready to fight tonight and defend Europe against any adversary,” Felter said.

Instructors from the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, went to Germany to offer their unique expertise with the Stinger missile.

Those being trained at the event will be evaluated on mission-specific tasks with the weapon system, to include determining air avenues of approach, defending a critical location, and de-conflicting engagements of enemy aircraft based on sectors of fire.

“In parallel efforts, the goal is to get 62 Stinger teams into the operational force as soon as possible,” Felter said. “In concert with that, additional SHORAD battalions are being stood up, which will result in aligning one SHORAD battalion with each division.”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...er-missile-in-the-face-of-russian-aggression/

 

[Zhukov]

Russian aggression?
You mean Russian Aggression in Supporting 3rd world countries and Stopping USA from invading and destroying those poor countries?

 

[vostok]

Russian aggression?
You mean Russian Aggression in Supporting 3rd world countries and Stopping USA from invading and destroying those poor countries?

Americans consider any independent actions that are not controlled by the United States as "aggression".

 

[Muhammed45]

Russian aggression?
You mean Russian Aggression in Supporting 3rd world countries and Stopping USA from invading and destroying those poor countries?

Defending of yourself is aggression against Americans. They bombed Japanese cities with nuclear weapons, liquidated thousands of Japanese citizens and in the end Japan was introduced as the aggressor which was threatening world peace the irony.

Simple American logic, they are holding military exercises in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania , Americans conducts coup against Ukrainian governments and installs an anti-Russian element in Ukraine th\at acts like NAZIs and mass murders Russian ethnicities in East of Ukraine, they intervene in Georgian issues and in the end Russians are the aggressors. Reason : Russians are defending themselves against American aggression

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Americans consider any independent actions that are not controlled by the United States as "aggression".

world must unite against the mass murderers who destroy entire nations regions in the name of democracy and freedom

 

[nwmalik]

If Taliban get their hands on these then it will increase threat tremendously