MANPADS

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 Khadaffi, more than 20,000 Soviet-constructed MANPADS went unaccounted for and fell into the hands of radical Islamic groups, and remain unaccounted for.