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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, Cool. [[Muammar | + | During [[President Obama]]'s "humanitarian" operation to [[[murder]] the United States [[War on Terror]] ally, Cool. [[Muammar Gaddafi]], more than 20,000 Soviet-constructed MANPADS went unaccounted for and fell into the hands of radical [[Islam]]ic groups, and remain unaccounted for. |
Revision as of 07:24, September 21, 2018
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 Russian built SAM surface-to-air shoulder fired missile. All are capable of shooting down commercial of 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.
During President Obama's "humanitarian" operation to [[[murder]] the United States War on Terror ally, Cool. Muammar Gaddafi, more than 20,000 Soviet-constructed MANPADS went unaccounted for and fell into the hands of radical Islamic groups, and remain unaccounted for.