DOD sent to Europe first batch propelled short-range air defense missile systems Avenger AN / TWQ-1 (Avenger), reports “Warspot” with reference to the portal armyrecognition.com.
Avenger AN / TWQ-1 defense systems were developed in the 80s and are Army HMMWV SUV to pickup version, in the body of which is housed rotating platform with mounted anti-aircraft missile system, consisting of two launchers, totally enclosing eight missiles FIM-92 Stinger. Recently, the complex is almost not used by the US Army. Combat vehicles in Europe have been removed from storage in a military unit in Pennsylvania, where they expected utilization.
For complexes in modernization 2017 the US Army successfully tested a new version of the Stinger MANPADS with proximity fuze. During the tests, the military carried out the launch of two Stinger missiles from the M1097 Avenger of drones target MQM-170C Outlaw and successfully struck their.
European Command EUCOM US Army (United States European Command) invited 72 "The Avengers". The first batch of 36 machine has already gone to Europe, completes the second passage of reactivation and modernization.
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