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To: Cats Pajamas

None of the missiles in that chart are even close to “man-portable”. Also, MANPADs don’t have enough range to hit an airliner at cruise altitude.

If ISIS managed to get their hands on a real SAM launcher, and somehow figured out how to operate it correctly, then certainly they could have knocked a plane from the sky at 31000 ft, but that’s a whole different ball of wax from having MANPADs.


11 posted on 10/31/2015 8:37:11 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Little Pig; Cats Pajamas
Oh, I'm quite certain that there are more than a few SAM launchers missing from the Libyan arsenal and I don't think lack of technical expertise is an issue.

The Nobel Peace Prize Winner is about to get us into shooting war with Russia and we're not on the good side.

I don't think they will be impressed that homosexuals and mentally ill transgenders are allowed to serve, that a 37 year old Mommy graduated from Ranger School or that our male ROTC have to march in red stilleto heels.

43 posted on 10/31/2015 11:16:56 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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