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Both missiles missed, and the pilots subsequently reported that they were "not an RPG" but a "probable first-generation MANPAD".

Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook 2010

It added, "Witness statements from (troops) suggest (it) was struck by a MANPAD and is consistent with MANPAD event described by Arrow 25."

Wikileaks documents: N. Korea sold missiles to al-Qaeda, Taliban 2010

Zack Phillips, author of the article on MANPAD countermeasures I blogged about over the weekend emails to note that the State Department does have an initiative geared to locating and destroying MANPADs in the field.

Matthew Yglesias » Tuesday MANPAD Blogging 2007

Imagine that a commercial airliner is brought down today by a MANPAD.

Matthew Yglesias » MANPAD Mania 2007

You could at least make the effort to give us MANPAD macros.

Matthew Yglesias » Tuesday MANPAD Blogging 2007

They occasionally perform IED, rocket, MANPAD and even a few impressive massed infantry attacks on Iraqi Police and government buildings (such as the symbolic assault on Abu Ghraieb prison in 2005).

New York Times: Bush Lying About Al Qaeda In Iraq 2009

I agree that installing MANPAD defenses on all commercial aircraft is probably not a cost-effective strategy.

Matthew Yglesias » MANPAD Mania 2007

Instead of cutting surface-to-air missile funding because - once again - the US is not at war with a country that has a functioning air force, "Congress appropriated $60 million in 2004 and $61 million in 2005 toward developing and testing MANPAD countermeasure systems using mature technologies adapted from the military sector for the commercial sector."

Allison Kilkenny: Missing Weapons: The Nation's Great Threat 2009

I suspect that these anti-MANPAD efforts by the State Dept will be marginally productive at best so long as the US, Russians & Chinese continue to manufacture them.

Matthew Yglesias » Tuesday MANPAD Blogging 2007

If, however, the crashes resulted from Stinger attacks or from a similar MANPAD shoulder-fired system, the deaths would be tragic and strategically ominous.

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