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Keep your hands raised if the reason you remember the Stinger is from reading newspapers during the Reagan Administration and think of them as the missiles the mujahideen used to shoot down Soviet ...
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 ...
In the 1980s, the U.S. achieved strategic dominance by mass-producing inexpensive Stinger missiles and sending them to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
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.
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Stinger anti-aircraft missiles date to the 1980s, but because of their use in Ukraine, stockpiles have dwindled. Raytheon plans to make more.
NATO's internal procurement agency will spend some $700 million to purchase heat-seeking shoulder-launched Stinger anti-air missiles from US munitions manufacturer Raytheon on behalf of several ...
Ukrainian air defense troops told CNN they had unboxed crates of Western-donated hand-held Stinger anti-air missiles that dated from the Afghan mujahideen’s war against the Soviets in ...
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.
The Stinger’s subsequent widespread deployment with U.S. and allied forces in various Middle Eastern conflicts, as well as its supply to Afghan Mujahideen forces during the Soviet Afghan War and ...