Man Portable Air Defense Systems - MANPADS
The Smoking Gun - Missile Experts Presentation to the FBI, August 1996
Stinger
Man Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS)
"Since initial deployment Stinger has, in combat, defeated more
modern fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters than any other fighter,
helicopter or missile system worldwide since the Second World
War." Jane's Defense Weekly
See Jane's
Defense Weekly description of the Stinger Capability -
10-19-00
How
many Stingers does bin Laden have?
- 10-8-99
Directory
of US Military Rockets & Missiles - FIM -92 Stinger
- 1-18-05
Military Stinger Test looks a lot like what the Eyewitnesses Described
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Stinger in flight
appears as streak, at impact as a white flash. Burning
fuel is orange.
Many eyewitnesses
described "streak of light",
leaving a "white smoke trail",
which terminated in a "bright white flash",
that subsequently evolved into two "yellow/orange
smoke trails" or fireballs.
CDR.
Donaldson's Comments on the Stinger Missile Test
Chinese QW-1 Shoulder-Fired Missile - Range 3.1 miles, Altitude >13,000 ft.
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)
Stinger Missile & Russian SA-7
Other Interesting Links:
- USA Today: How the Stinger missile works
- How Stuff Works: Stinger Missile
- FIM-92A Stinger Weapons System
- Stinger Missile Threat to Airlines - good video
- Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Systems
- Army Rocket and Missile systems - lots of photos
- Redstone: Stinger/Avenger
- Stinger
- Missile An Unlikely Cause of TWA Plane Crash, Says Army
- Rocket guidance
- Information on Warheads & other links
- International Herald Tribune - Fear becomes reality - 11-30-2002
- The
Threat of Shoulder-Fired Missiles - 6-1-2002
- Chinese/Pakistani made man-portable surface to air missile - Anza MKII
