Inside the US Army's 'Stinger Dome,' scoring a kill with the weapons Ukraine got to shoot down Russian helicopters is harder than it looks
Business Insider recently traveled to Fort Sill, where our reporter got to train on two short-range air-defense systems.
Inside the virtual battles Ukrainian soldiers are fighting with top-of-the-line fake guns to train for real combat
Business Insider recently visited a facility in Kyiv where Ukrainian soldiers use virtual reality simulators to prepare for ...
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Avenger Weapon System
The fully automated, short-range Avenger air defense system ... defense weapon. It is a lightweight, highly mobile, easily transportable surface-to-air missile fire unit with eight Stinger ...
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U.S. Working on Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Replacement, First Details Are In
Just like the weapon it's meant to replace, the NGSRI can also be launched from a man-portable system, including the one presently used for the Stinger, the Vehicle Universal Launch system.
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Stinger: The Hacked Machine Gun Of Iwo Jima
After seeing how successful the weapon was during the invasion of Iwo Jima, there was even some talk of putting the Stinger into larger scale production and distributing them. But the war ended ...
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Raytheon Tucson touts test milestone for next-gen short-range missile
The short-range interceptor missile system destined to ... were part of the testing: • The weapon’s seeker assembly demonstrated range that far exceeded Stinger in laboratory and outdoor ...
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Raytheon progressing with development of Stinger replacement
Restarting production of the aged weapon system proved challenging. Raytheon dusted off paper schematics and recalled retired engineers to restart Stinger production. In 2024, Raytheon told ...