Via. Max Boot adds:
...So are shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles such as the
- American FIM-92 Stinger,
- British Starstreak,
- French Mistral,
- Chinese Qianwei-2,
- Russian SA-7 Grail,
- Russian SA-14 Gremlin,
- Russian SA-16 Gimlet,
- Russian SA-18 Grouse.
There are at least 100,000 such systems in the arsenals of over 100 states and at least 13 non-state groups such as Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the Tamil Tigers. The best models have a range of 23,000 feet.
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