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  2. FIM-92 Stinger - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. Marine fires a FIM-92 Stinger missile during a July 2009 training exercise in California. 4 Stinger missiles on a Dutch Army Fennek reconnaissance vehicle. The missile began as a program by General Dynamics to produce an improved variant of their 1967 FIM-43 Redeye. Production of the Redeye ran from 1969 to 1982, with a total production ...

  3. 3d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion - Wikipedia

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    A Marine Corps AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, Pedestal Mounted Stinger Missile System mounted on a Humvee The Avenger Weapon System was introduced to the battalion 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 ...

  4. File:FIM-92 Stinger anti aircraft missile at Payerne airbase ...

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  5. 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 ...

  6. United States Army Field Artillery School - Wikipedia

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    Introduced in 1966–67, FADAC made the field artillery a leader in computer developments for the Army. After the Vietnam War, the school participated in the introduction of the Multiple-Launch Rocket System, the Army Tactical Missile System, the Paladin 155-mm. self-propelled howitzer, and other field artillery systems.

  7. Man-portable air-defense system - Wikipedia

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    In photos, the missile systems were painted in light blue, the color used in the Soviet military for training material (a training SA-7 round would not have the guidance system). 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident : On 22 November 2003, an Airbus A300 B4-203F cargo plane , operating on behalf of DHL was hit by an SA-14 missile, which ...

  8. File:Launched FIM-92A Stinger missile.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. 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.