He also cited the manipulative example of Afghanistan, where Stinger surface-to-air missile systems handed over to the mujahideen "then had to be put under control". The Russian publication claims ...

Grushko cited a manipulative example of Afghanistan, where Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems supplied to the mujahideen later had to be “brought under control.” “Even taking this experience into ...

In the 1980s, the U.S. achieved strategic dominance by mass-producing inexpensive Stinger missiles and sending them to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

Islamabad allowed planeloads of Stinger missiles on its territory to help the Afghan Mujahideen counter the Soviet Hind attack copters. Gradually, Pakistan started exporting Afghan Mujahedeen to J&K ...

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The ground-to-air missile drill marked the first use of a Stinger missile in Cobra Gold’s 44-year history.

Lockheed Martin and RTX are competing to develop the U.S. Army's replacement for its Stinger short-range air defense missile it no longer produces.

The US Army plans to replace Raytheon's Cold War-era shoulder-launched FIM-92 anti-air missile with the Next-Generation Short Range Interceptor amid surging demand for flexible air defence capability.

Operation Cyclone, the covert program the United States ran from 1979 to 1992 to aid the mujahideen fighting the Soviet-backed Afghan government, is one. Early in President Ronald Reagan’s ...

Morton Abramowitz, diplomat galvanized by war and famine, dies at 91 He led calls to send Stinger missiles to anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan and founded the International Crisis Group to ...

From WWII to the Cold War's A-10 and Apache, explore the shift from tank-hunters to drones on modern battlefields.