Wednesday, January 24, 2007

THERE WAS GOING TO BE A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY, BUT THEN SOMEBODY...


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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