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'''MANPADS''' or '''Man-portable air-defense system''' is the name that is commonly used to refer to either the [[U.S.]] built [[TOW]] and [[Stinger]] built series of shoulder fired missile, or the [[Soviet]]-era and modern [[Russia]]n built [[SAM]] surface-to-air shoulder fired missile. All are capable of shooting down commercial of military aircraft with a heat seeking missiles.
'''MANPADS''' or '''Man-portable air-defense system''' is the name that is commonly used to refer to either the [[U.S.]] built [[TOW]] and [[Stinger]] built series of shoulder fired missile, or the [[Soviet]]-era and modern [[Russia]]n built [[SAM]] surface-to-air shoulder fired missile. All are capable of shooting down commercial and military aircraft with a heat seeking missiles.
Many MANPADS manufactured during the [[Cold War]] have an extremely long shelf-life of decades, and are fully operational given proper storage conditions.
Many MANPADS manufactured during the [[Cold War]] have an extremely long shelf-life of decades, and are fully operational given proper storage conditions.
During [[President Obama]]'s "humanitarian" operation to [[murder]] the United States [[War on Terror]] ally, Col. [[Muammar Gaddafi]], more than 20,000 Soviet-constructed MANPADS went unaccounted for and fell into the hands of radical [[Islam]]ic [[terrorist]] groups, and remain unaccounted for.
During [[President Obama]]'s "humanitarian" operation to [[murder]] the United States [[War on Terror]] ally, Col. [[Muammar Gaddafi]], more than 20,000 Soviet-constructed MANPADS went unaccounted for and fell into the hands of radical [[Islam]]ic [[terrorist]] groups, and remain unaccounted for.