A MANPAD is pretty effective against low flying aircraft. It is important to note that in order to drop bombs it has to fly down low and to fly low it has to slow down to below Mach 1 in order to be accurate.@Homo Sapiens you can call a mod.
Manpads won't do shit against JFT.Burma hasn't got enough resources for fighting these groups,they can go and bomb them using PGM's but they don't have troops for effective ground coverage.
Above all many of these groups are controlled by West also.
The newer Stingers have a UV as well as an IR seeker head which allows the missile to distinguish between aircraft exhaust from flares, and it accelerates to over Mach 2 quickly, something the pilot cannot react to fast enough. Because of their passive detection components, the pilot has no warning receiver to detect being tracked and can only use vision to detect the rocket exhaust. However, because the rocket is small, detecting it is difficult.
So, a MANPAD kills your JF-17 which is only 1.8 Mach at the highest. It has to slow down to below 1 Mach when flying low. And MANPADs will be chasing to hit your fuselage. Please do not imagine that JF-17 or even F-16 is invincible. Read through the American experience in Vietnam.
So, you can rest assured that the AA has some external source to get its MANPADs that will blow away your JF-17 most of the time. MANPADs are very cheap to destroy expensive planes.