Notes on Stinger Weapons System


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Shoulder-launched, surface-to-air Stinger missiles. The US supplied stingers to Pakistan ISI to distribute to the Mujaheddin during the Russian Afghan War. The supply started in 1986.
During the American war Gulbadin Hekmatyar has offered aid to the Taliban and has given them many of his arms caches including Stinger Missles. Normally stingers would be a cause for alarm but the batteries are alll expered and they won't fire unless they are rewired which seems to be a little difficult for terrorists. A few years ago someone got one of them to fire at a aircraft in the Persian Gulf. It stuck in the fuseilage without exploding.

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