[freepersup]

Today, on the recurring post, Ya gotta see this: Operation Enduring Freedom, are pictures of the launchers. Are these grenade launchers, or heat seeking missile launchers ? I'm not so sure any defense mechanism was responsible for the misses. Sounds more like psyops.

[Cold Heat]

Missiles!

No camo applied. Wrong color for Iran.

I am no expert, perhaps someone can elucidate.

But, it looks like a SA series. Those colors look lie U.N. origin. Probably from the Baltic's.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The launchers that were used were recovered. The launchers used were Russian-made Strela-2 rocket launchers. The Strela-2 was introduced in 1972, but it is based on 1950s technology.

The system is cruder and less reliable than more modern heat-seeking rocket systems such as the US-made Stinger and the Russian Igla. But the failure of the attack is more likely to be the result of incompetence than a technical malfunction.

The Strela-2 consists of a shoulder-mounted, reusable launcher fitted with an individual rocket. The rocket has a nitrogen-cooled heat-seeking system and will not fire until it has locked onto a heat-emitting target. But the heat-seeking system requires time to adjust its flight and hit its target - if the target is less than 500 metres away, it can miss.