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  2. FIM-92 Stinger - Wikipedia

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    The FIM-92 Stinger is a passive surface-to-air missile that can be shoulder-fired by a single operator (although standard military procedure calls for two operators – team chief and gunner). [4] The Stinger was intended to supplant the FIM-43 Redeye system, the principal difference being that, unlike the Redeye, the Stinger can acquire the ...

  3. AN/TWQ-1 Avenger - Wikipedia

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    4/8 ready-to-fire FIM-92 Stinger missiles; One FN M3P machine gun built by FN Herstal, [2] a variant of the Browning AN/M3 developed for aviation use during World War II. It is a 12.7 mm (.50) caliber machine gun with an electronic trigger that can be fired from both the remote control unit (RCU) located in the drivers cab, and from the ...

  4. Air-to-Air Stinger - Wikipedia

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    Turkish T129 ATAK helicopter with two air-to-air Stinger missiles mounted under-wing. The Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS) [1] (also unofficially called AIM-92 Stinger) is an air-to-air missile system developed from the shoulder-launched FIM-92 Stinger, for use on helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache, T129 ATAK, [2] Eurocopter Tiger, and also UAVs such as the MQ-1 Predator.

  5. Man-portable air-defense system - Wikipedia

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    Fourth generation missiles, such as the canceled American FIM-92 Stinger Block 2, Russian Verba, Chinese QW-4, Indian VSHORAD and Japanese Type 91 surface-to-air missile use imaging infrared focal plane array guidance systems and other advanced sensor systems, which permit engagement at greater ranges. [9]

  6. Boxer (armoured fighting vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    The turret will be equipped with a 30 × 173 mm KCE revolver gun firing programmable ABM, two Stinger surface-to-air missiles, and a sensor suite. The latter will comprise a Hensoldt Spexer X-band radar with three panels each providing 120° azimuth coverage integrated into the turret and an electro-optical tracking sensor with a thermal camera ...

  7. The SEAL Rifle So Powerful, It Redefines Lethal - AOL

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    FIM-92 Stinger ©"Italian Army - 17th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment 'Sforzesca' FIM-92 Stinger team during an exercise 2015" by Italian Army is licensed under BY 2.5.

  8. History of ground based air defense in the United States ...

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    A Marine Corps FIM-92 Avenger, Pedestal Mounted Stinger Missile System mounted on a Humvee The AN/TWQ-1 Avenger weapon system was introduced in January 1995. The Avenger provided Marine Corps air defenders with new capabilities in a lightweight, day/night, limited adverse weather fire unit for countering the threat of low altitude, high-speed ...

  9. List of equipment of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force

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    FIM-92A Stinger: Man-portable air-defense system: 70mm United States — [57] Short range air-defence missiles Type 81 short-range surface-to-air missile: Surface-to-air missile: 160mm Japan — Built by Toshiba. Type 93 short-range surface-to-air missile: Surface-to-air missile: 80mm Japan — Built by Toshiba. Type 11 short-range surface-to ...