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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The Stingers are not all that advanced, and it should also be noted that without maintenance, they spoil in storage. This was built into them from the start.

I didn't know that.

And there I was, thinking that all those stingers were floating around in the international scene, just waiting for someone to use them against civilian aircraft.

When the US first started giving them to the Afgan freedom fighters almost two decades ago, I felt the stingers would become a serious problem.

Now I understand why remarkably few civilian aircraft were destroyed by stingers.

Kudos to the U.S. for realizing their potential danger in the long term.