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Mistral Coordination Post (MCP) with Oerlikon Contraves SHORAR. The Missile Transportable Anti-aérien Léger (English: Transportable lightweight anti-air missile), commonly called Mistral, is a French infrared homing short range air defense system manufactured by MBDA France (formerly by Matra Défense and then Matra BAe Dynamics).
Third generation infrared MANPADS, such as the French Mistral, the Soviet 9K38 Igla, and the US Stinger B, use rosette scanning detectors to produce a quasi-image of the target. Their seeker compares input from multiple detections bands, either two widely separated IR bands or IR and UV , giving them much greater ability to discern and reject ...
Mistral France: Short-range surface-to-air missile system 196 196 Mistral firing stations in service as of 2021; Unknown number of Mistral MANPADS donated to Ukraine in 2022; NEROD F5-5 France: Portable anti-drone weapon Unknown The NEROD F5 is a microwave jammer capable of disrupting and neutralizing all communication protocols used by drones.
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Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS).
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