The Briefing Room
General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: DemolitionMan on September 24, 2017, 05:28:47 am
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BY MARCUS WEISGERBER
The four-decade-old Stinger missile has a new mission: shooting down small drones.
The U.S. Army and Raytheon modified the shoulder-fired weapon — better known for being able to shoot down aircraft and cruise missiles — as part of a Pentagon search for new ways to down that kind of small, cheap drones that Islamic State militants have been known to pack with explosives.
In recent tests at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, modified Stingers took down a MQM-170C Outlaw and another unidentified drone, according to Raytheon.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/06/stinger-missiles-can-now-shoot-down-small-drones/138322/?oref=d-channelriver