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Mar 1, 2022
The latest US package includes 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems in addition to more than 600 already promised
The FIM-92 Stinger is a “man-portable air-defence system” – or Manpads – that is typically used by ground troops but can also be used from helicopters. This type of weapon was seen as crucial to the mujahideen’s successful guerrilla conflict in the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. Germany has also pledged to send 500 Stinger missiles.
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