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US Army goes with Dynetics for Indirect Fires Protection Capability solution

Enduring Shield IFPC
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The US Army appears to have selected Dynetics as the preferred contractor for its program to field an enduring solution for drone and cruise missile defense.

Leidos-owned Dynetics was selected over the Rafael and Raytheon Technologies team, who were pitching the Iron Dome system and Tamir interceptors for the program, Defense News reported citing sources.

The army made the decision after completing a shoot-off between the Iron Dome and the Dynetics system. Dynetics unveiled first graphics of the system last year but provided very little detail about the system, saying only it was derived from previous army science and technology programs.

The report on the choice of the preferred contractor comes after the army completed the first live-fire trial of one of the two Iron Dome batteries it bought from Israel in 2019 as an interim cruise missile defense solution.

Iron Dome will serve as the army’s cruise missile defense solution until the service readies IFPC for service.

The US Army is also working with Dynetics on developing a directed energy weapon that will have its power increased from a 100 kW-class system to a 300kW-class system, as part of the indirect fires protection capability – high energy laser (IFPC-HEL) endeavor.