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Africa North
Iran selling anti aircraft missiles to the GNA through Turkey
2020-06-29
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Posted by:Fred

#7  One of the commenters on another site said that they looked like the new QW-18 (Chinese) units

There is a sheet of paper written w/ QW-01M (MISGAH-2) MANPADS. The QW-18, like more modern Stingers, has dual color IR detectors for better flare rejection.
Posted by: Grineter Elmavirt6492   2020-06-29 14:49  

#6  Iranian knockoff of the Chinese knockoff of the Russian SA-18. The Iranians have also supplied these to their proxies in Iraq.
Posted by: Grineter Elmavirt6492   2020-06-29 14:44  

#5  But Besoeker, it'd be a wonderful opportunity to see how the F-35 does against those QW-18s...or whatever the heck they are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-06-29 11:42  

#4  ^ Yes, the enormous national interests that are being ignored. I'm sure there are migraines aplenty inside the beltway.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-29 11:31  

#3  While the deep state and MIC both pine for involvement, yet another overseas klusterphuk the Orange Man can keep us out of.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-06-29 10:07  

#2  One of the commenters on another site said that they looked like the new QW-18 (Chinese) units
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-06-29 10:01  

#1  Um, I don't think those are FIM-92's. I think those are the Russian knockoffs. Or the Chinese knockoffs of Russian knockoffs .(!!!)
Posted by: Nguard   2020-06-29 09:35  

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