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However it is not difficult at all to rig a SA7 where you can fire it from another aircraft. All you have to do is mount it under a wing and then extend the wires that gives you a lock on tone to the cockpit along with the firing wire. This is VERY simple to do.

You're right ! Look no further than mounting Stingers on OH58Ds. Add to this , certain aircraft have fairly small radar signatures and if shadowing a B747 ,it's easy to not even see it. You and I both know that jettisoning the launchers would be fairly easy as well . What most people don't realize is tha tthe warhead for any kind of SAM ,or any other anti air missile ,does not have to be all that large, either.

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But if they did do that, they would have tried it again.