Word: stinger
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...Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine...
...understanding of freedom's cost in duty and sacrifice. He acknowledged that the soldiers he was sending into battle were not just warriors but daddies; and he was sending them to fight a suicidal enemy in a country that was a garden of mines, abuzz with old U.S. Stinger missiles waiting to bring down a helicopter. No one expected them all to come home alive. But hardly anyone said not to send them...
...Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine...
...helicopters. So far, the Pentagon has demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles?arms sent to the mujahedin in the mid-'80s by the CIA?to try to shoot the Americans down...
...started the next week against Columbia, and played almost perfectly, going 14-of-16 with two touchdowns. But he had to leave the game again with a stinger, and didn’t return...