Word: strela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official identified the Kuwaiti missile as a "Strela," the old Western code name for the Soviet Union...
...shepherds were told by their GRU directors to collect every piece of metal they could find. The GRU was not interested in warheads as such, but in elements of the guidance system that experts in Moscow were able to use to improve their equivalent missiles. Take the Soviet Strela-2 antiaircraft missile -- it's an exact copy of the American Redeye. Take the SU-15 supersonic fighter, which destroyed the South Korean aircraft (Flight 007). The technology in the SU-15 was stolen abroad...