[FPSPACE] Russia Sends Hundreds Of AA Missiles To Iran

[Brett Harrison]

Dan Barkley wrote:
> 
> Jim:
> 
> Any chance that these SA-16's may go the way of the SA-2's and someday
> make up a booster stage for a SSM or SLV?

I think that's unlikely with a *shoulder-launched* missile, Dan.
The SA-16 is a Russian equivalent of the US' man-portable, shoulder-fired
Stinger.


> The Israeli Yediot Aharonot daily reported on Friday that Russia plans to
> send 325 shoulder-fired SA-16 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The SA-16 is
> regarded as the most effective missile deployed in the former East Bloc and
> Israeli sources fear that they will be transported to the Hizbullah in
> Lebanon.

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