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 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.

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 Islamic terrorist groups, and remain unaccounted for.