U.S. Paratroopers Are Training to Jump With Surface-To-Air Missiles
By Andrew Moseman
Aug 14, 2018
U.S. paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division having started carrying a new item on their training jumps. According to the Fayetteville Observer, soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team have been taking test jumps this month with the FIM-92 Stinger, a man-portable surface-to-air missile.
Raytheon makes the 5-foot-long, 22-lb. Stinger, which has been in service with dozens of countries since 1981. Stingers showed up during the '80s in the Falklands War and the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan.
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