A post made on another thread:
Some variants have a range well over 20,000'.
Airliners can't stay in the air forever. They have to climb to cruising altitude and then descend back down.
For the sake of argument, let's allow for climb or descent rate of 2,000 FPM (Feet Per Minute), and airspeed of 250 MPH (aircraft will cover 4 miles every minute).
This allows a mobile terrorist equipped with one of these newer variants, to check with some web-based flight tracking system like maybe https://flightaware.com/, jump in his car and travel (10 minutes) to a point which intersects the aircraft's flightpath, up to 40 miles from the airport. Btw, the faster the aircraft's airspeed, the further from the airport the attack can take place.
The terrorist then exits the vehicle, acquires and brings down the airliner which would then be 10 minutes out and passing through 20,000' - a relatively slow moving non-evading target for a missile designed to strike a target traveling in excess of 800 mph in some cases.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger, 70,000 missiles have been produced.
Theoretically, it could mean the end of "safe" air travel anywhere in the world as we currently enjoy it.
And wouldn't that be a major goal for the Islamists and the Church of Global Warming Alarmist allies?
Just imagine all the 'greenhouse gasses' that would suddenly stop if ISIS was able to end safe air travel for the little people?
>>Theoretically, it could mean the end of “safe” air travel anywhere in the world as we currently enjoy it.
Yup, and then watch public reaction to Islam and their radical sympathizers. “Arab Spring” is going to detonate in Obama’s face. I’m laying in a supply of Orville Redenbachers.
Oh yeah, this little air travel problem will also include business jets ferrying globalist Nazi oligarchs to their next Bilderburg clavern.