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21 posted on 05/22/2013 12:50:49 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)

During the Yom Kippur war the SA-7 saw large scale service against high speed jet fighter bombers. The Arab states are said to have fired more than 4000 SA-7 rounds against Israeli Skyhawks and other such ground attack aircraft and scored 7 shot down.

7 out of 4000.

The SA-7 is a Soviet copy of the obsolete U.S. Redeye manpad (predecessor to Stinger).

U.S. helicopters in Vietnam were able to fool the SA-7’s into missing them by venting their turbine exhaust up into the rotor wash.

If you can’t hit a helicopter...

23 posted on 05/22/2013 1:05:22 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)