FIM-92 Stinger: America's Missile Used to Destroy Russian Helicopter

FIM-92 Stinger: America&Missile Used to Destroy Russian Helicopter The Russians in the war with Ukraine are using their latest Su-34s and Su-35s, which are 4++ fighters, as well as attack helicopters - the Mi-28N Night Hunter and Ka-52 Alligator. It would seem that the FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air defense missile system, which is over forty years old, has little chance to cope with modern Russian aircraft. But this is in theory. And the practice is that according to the evidence of the military of the 81st separate airmobile brigade of the airborne assault troops of the AFU, they have destroyed Stinger more than a dozen Russian aircraft, including two SU-34s. So why did the forty-year-old antiaircraft missile system prove to be so effective? It is all about its successful, maximally well-thought-out design.