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Perhaps Russia might send 5100 Russian SA-18 Grouse MANPAD to Al Qaeda ISIS or White Nationalist in German cities for some airport???... Tit for tat?
Aviation Industry Mum on Russia’s Veiled Manpad Warning
by Gregory Polek and Charles Alcock
March 11, 2022, 12:25 PM
Sgt. Zane Pettibone and Spc. Svenson Albert, a Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) team with 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conduct engagement sequences and the 13 critical checks of the Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS), as part of the multinational live-fire training exercise Shabla 19, June 11, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thomas Mort)
Russia has issued a warning that the transfer to Ukraine of manpads, including Stinger shoulder-fired air defense systems, pose a threat to civil aviation. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY) by The U.S. Army)
Russia has so far failed to provoke a reaction from Western aviation alphabet organizations with a recent warning about the threat to civil aircraft from surface-to-air missiles exported from the U.S. to Ukraine. In a March 5 statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova cited what she called the growing threat of man-portable air-defense systems (manpads) making their way into the hands of “terrorists or illegal armed groups, not only in Ukraine, but in Europe as well,” thereby posing a “great danger” to civil aviation.