Word: stinger
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...hooked up to NATO's grid yet, it could be very soon. Another reason for admitting the Balts to NATO is financial: Western weapons manufacturers win a few more clients as the new members upgrade their systems to NATO standards. Last week Lithuania signed an agreement to buy a Stinger anti-aircraft missile system from the U.S., thus becoming the first Baltic state to purchase the high-tech weaponry. Under the agreement, the Lithuanians will acquire 60 missiles at a cost of $31 million over three years. Lithuanian officials say the Stingers will reinforce the country's airborne defenses...
Alarming headlines last week suggested that international terrorism had come to Hong Kong. Three men of South Asian descent were arrested for allegedly trying to trade drugs for Stinger missiles, the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons used to wipe out Soviet planes and helicopters in Afghanistan in the 1980s. A U.S. indictment of the three suspects claims that the arms were destined for al-Qaeda, and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has enthusiastically hailed the bust as a "strike against the terrorism/drug-trafficking nexus...
...marble-clad Conrad Hotel, where the average room costs $210 per night. According to the indictment, the deal then firmed up: the three men offered 5 metric tons of hashish and 600 kilos of heroin. They later agreed, says the indictment, to take payment in the form of four Stinger missiles. After a couple of days of haggling, they allegedly told the undercover FBI men they intended to sell the Stingers to the Taliban, "an organization which the defendants indicated was the same as al-Qaeda," reads the indictment...
After graduating today, Cromwell will spend seven months training in Texas before heading to Germany as a second lieutenant in the air defense artillery, where he will be responsible for eight HUMVEEs that fire stinger missiles to protect ground troops...
This is not to say your plane could not be brought down by a suicide bomber of another sort. It could. It could also be brought down by a meteorite. Or by a Stinger missile fired by Vermont dairymen in armed rebellion. These are all possible. But because they are rather improbable, we do not alter our daily lives to defend against the possibility...