15 June 2022
US Army eyeing new M-LIDS competition, live-fire prototype testing in 2023
by Ashley Roque
US soldiers with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct Mobile Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrated Defense System (M-LIDS) training at Camp Buehring in Kuwait in January 2022. The service wants to take the two-vehicle weapon system and integrate it onto a single vehicle. (US Army)
The US Army is seeking companies that can merge its Mobile, Low, Slow, Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (M-LIDS) technologies onto a single ground vehicle, possibly a Stryker, and enable the weapon to hit aerial threats while on the move.
The M-LIDS Increment 2 is a two-vehicle solution using the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) where one vehicle detects and tracks aerial threats and a second outfitted kinetic and non-kinetic technologies downs group 1–3 unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Instead, the army wants to “transition” M-LIDS onto a single vehicle while also maintaining “mission effectiveness and enhancing system ease of use and reliability” as part of an Increment 3 programme, according to a 13 June request for information issued by the US Army Materiel Command.
Although an M-ATV may be used for this upgraded effort, the army notes that a Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV) Double-V Hull or a “similar prime mover” may be used.
“Offerors must be able to perform all tasks expected of a lead systems integrator and provide a fully integrated [counter-UAS] C-UAS mission equipment package onto a single vehicle,” the army wrote.
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