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From: shaig%shum.Huji.AC.IL@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Shai Guday)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Shoulder-Launched AA Missles
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Date: 6 Dec 89 02:48:46 GMT
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From: shaig%shum.Huji.AC.IL@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Shai Guday)

In article <11927@cbnews.ATT.COM> military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker) w
rites:
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%I hypothesize that the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missle makes
%much of the modern air force obsolete.  The major reason is the cost
%differential.  Secondary considerations are size and portability.
%In short, any airplane you can build, I can shoot down for much less
%cost and from pretty much any position.
%
%What do you think?

Yes and no.

To a certain extent, shoulder launched AA missiles can be a factor in
a confrontation, however they would not necessarily be a deciding factor.
The guidance mechanisms for these missiles is simple, their range is
relatively limited, and I am not at all sure of the effectiveness.

>From my experience in Lebanon, the only aircraft that had to worry
were the Sikorsky troop carriers, and they had the means to fool the
missile guidance control systems.

Of course I was in the infantry, and it just may be that the pilots
sweated a bit more than we knew ;-).

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