Official: Army Must Prepare To ‘Ruthlessly’ Retire Its Patriot, Stinger Systems In Near Future

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As the Army assesses future air and missile defense requirements it must prepare to“ruthlessly” retire legacy air defense systems, such as its Patriot and Stinger systems, a leadmodernization official said Tuesday.“We’re not going to Patriot and Stinger our way to a modernized air defense force. It’s notgoing to happen. We can’t afford it nor should we,” Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson, director of the Airand Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team, said during remarks at the service’s FiresConference. “Those things are phenomenal weapon systems but they’re going to go at somepoint, and they need to go.”Gibson specifically said the Army