That changed with the introduction of the man-portable air defense system, the Stinger. The U.S. eventually supplied between 2,000 and 2,500 missiles to the mujahideen between 1986 and the Soviet ...

Indeed, the Mujahideen came to call Mi-24 Hind ... of the Swiss-made FIM-92 Stinger shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles. A Stinger’s heat-seeking missile was able to target the Mi-24 ...

In 1982, Britain's Special Air Service troops were the first to fire a Stinger missile in combat, during the Falkland Islands conflict. They had been drafted in to distract Argentine forces from ...