Word: stinger
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Will it all work? The helicopters will be vulnerable to the 100 or so shoulder-launched, CIA-purchased, Soviet-war-era Stinger missiles still in the hands of the Taliban. The Stingers have one of the greatest records of any killing machine ever invented; a 1989 U.S. Army study found that the Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed...
APACHE Armed to the teeth with Hellfire rockets, Stinger missiles and 1,200 rounds of 30-mm ammo...
...Will it all work? The helicopters will be vulnerable to the 100 or so shoulder-launched, CIA-purchased, Soviet-war-era Stinger missiles still in the hands of the Taliban. The Stingers have one of the greatest records of any killing machine ever invented; a 1989 U.S. Army study found that the Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed...
WHAT THEY CAN DO: Pave Lows can follow terrain at treetop level, carry commandos 600 miles and evade Stinger missiles...
...remote for several reasons. The flight originated in Israel, which meant its passengers would have been subjected to the most intense airport security in the world. And bringing the airliner down in mid-flight at 27,000 feet over the sea would be a tall order even for the Stinger missiles believed to have found their way into the hands of the Bin Laden network after the Afghan war. If the plane was indeed brought down by a missile, the odds favor at least a truck-mounted surface-to-air missile system beyond the known capability of even the best...