text: Short-Range Air Defense Fundamentals
  Forward Area Air Defense C2. The Avenger is a Stinger missile-based, vehicle mounted air defense system
  carrying up to eight Stinger missiles in a ready-to-fire configuration. The Avenger system can be slewed on
  radar cue to the direction of an approaching air threat. The Stinger missile can also be removed from the
  Avenger and fired in a man-portable configuration if desired or necessary. The Sentinel, AN/MPQ-64,
  provides persistent air surveillance and fire control quality data.
  Figure 2-2. Avenger battalion
  Avenger batteries are in pure Avenger battalions fielded in the Army National Guard, Composite
  Patriot-Avenger battalions, and indirect fire protection capability Avenger battalions. The battery consists of
  a headquarters section, two platoons with six Avengers each, four to eight Sentinel radars (depending upon
  the type battalion), and Forward Area Air Defense C2 systems. Avenger batteries normally defend critical
  assets at theater, corps, division, and BCT levels. Batteries generally deploy with their parent battalion or as
  separate batteries and are employed as batteries or platoons.
  The indirect fire protection capability-Avenger battalion (figure 2-3 on page 2-4) consists of a
  headquarters and headquarters battery, two indirect fire protection capability intercept batteries, an Avenger
  battery, and a maintenance company. The indirect fire protection capability-Avenger battalion is normally
  assigned at the theater or corps level. The intercept batteries defend fixed assets and ground forces from RAM
  threats in support areas. RAM Warn system provides early warning of impending RAM attacks through a
  network with capabilities internal to the intercept batteries and external to supported elements.