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Afghanistan
Afghan Police Official Says Iran Supplying Taliban With MANPADS
2020-02-20
Posted by:Glerert Elmoque9663

#6  An African Swallow or a European Swallow?
Posted by: gorb   2020-02-20 23:07  

#5  Giant passenger aircraft on takeoff and approach are not much faster than a laden swallow.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-02-20 21:30  

#4  In one of those amusing bits of synchronicity our Universe is famous for, I just watched "Charlie Wilson's War"- the movie version of how we supplied Stingers to the mujahideen to fight Russians.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-02-20 20:43  

#3  /\ Yes.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-20 17:36  

#2  Can MANPADS hit anything besides slow moving helicopters?
Posted by: jpal   2020-02-20 17:26  

#1  Chief of Police of Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan has said that Afghan intelligence services have evidence Iran is supplying the Taliban with Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS).

Mini pads would have been appropriate.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-02-20 17:21  

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