The Army Is Ditching All of Its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems
A Stryker equipped with a mobile gun system fires a round of high explosive ammunition July 26, 2011 at Yakima Training Center, Wash. (Mark Miranda/U.S. Army)
12 May 2021
The Army announced Wednesday that it is planning to divest all of its Stryker Mobile Gun Systems by the end of fiscal 2022.
The service said in a news release it had decided the time has come to retire the M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System after a study showed it is obsolete, and its out-of-date cannon and automatic loader have systemic issues. Decisions on when it is best to divest a system currently in the force are not taken lightly, Lt. Gen. James Pasquarette, the Army s deputy chief of staff for programs, said in the release. The Army has done its due diligence to ensure lethality upgrades will remain intact to provide our Stryker formations the capabilities they need in the future.