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Missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Modern ICBMs, the largest missiles currently deployed, represent the most destructive weapons ever made in human history. Missiles which spend most of their trajectory in unpowered flight, and which don't use aerodynamics to alter their course, are known as ballistic missiles (because their motion is largely governed by the laws of ballistics). Missiles are often used in warfare as a means of delivering destructive force (usually in the form of an explosive warhead) upon a target. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missile   (541 words)

Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon is a shoulder-launched missile weapon, based on the Israeli B-300,with the primary function of being a portable anti-armor rocket launcher. Although the weapon can be fired from the off-hand, kneeling, and prone positions, the prone position is generally not used, as the shockwave from the weapon tends to form a "bubble" around the weapon, and one's legs, when subject to the shockwave, become very sore. The backblast extends in a 90 meter, 45 degree cone to the rear of the weapon. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shoulder-Launched_Multipurpose_Assault_Weapon   (1151 words)

Chinese Defence Today - HN-5 Shoulder-Launched Air Defence Missile Chinese Defence Today - HN-5 Shoulder-Launched Air Defence Missile The missile's seeker is fitted with a filter to reduce the effectiveness of decoying flares and to block IR emissions. The missile was produced in significant numbers in a range of variants, and was exported to many countries. www.sinodefence.com /army/antiaircraft/hn5.asp   (416 words)

Shoulder-Fired Missiles Issues Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) Official Website Shoulder-fired missiles are most often heat-seeking missiles, employing sensors that home in on the airplane’s infrared signature, likely the engine. Shoulder-fired missiles (SFMs) are known as man-portable air-defense missiles or “MANPADS.” They have been in use since the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. Chaff and flares typically are employed to deflect heat-seeking missiles. www.house.gov /israel/issues/shoulderfiredmissles.htm   (1519 words)

CNN.com - FBI warns of shoulder-fired missiles threat - May 31, 2002 FIM-92 Stinger missile was initially deployed as a man-portable weapon by the U.S. Army. The missile tube was found a few miles from where U.S. planes take off and land at the remote desert base, within range of shoulder-fired missiles -- typically specified as up to 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) and 13,000 feet (3,963 meters). The FBI warning stressed the United States had no specific intelligence that al Qaeda is planning an attack using shoulder-fired missiles. archives.cnn.com /2002/US/05/30/missile.threat   (401 words)

Army Technology - Javelin - Anti-Armour Missile The missile is launched at an 18° elevation angle to reach a peak altitude of 150m in top attack mode and 50m in direct fire mode. Once the missile is clear, the larger propellant in the second stage is ignited and the missile is propelled towards the target. The missile is mounted on the Command Launch Unit and the gunner engages the target using the sight on the CLU, by placing a curser box over the image of the target. www.army-technology.com /projects/javelin   (1019 words)

Are Shoulder-Launched Guided Missiles a Real Threat? In 1998, soldiers in the former Soviet republic of Georgia staged an uprising and seized a cache of the shoulder-launched missiles. Nonetheless, analyses of man-portable missile attacks show that as a group, commercial aircraft (as opposed to small jet fighters that are specifically designed to detect, evade and withstand such missiles) have as much as a 70 percent chance of being lost if hit by a single missile. The weapons "are a serious threat, [and] not enough is being done to deal with it," retired Adm. Thomas Moorer, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for President Reagan, told Salon in an interview. www.iasa.com.au /folders/Security_Issues/dosamspose-1.html   (4075 words)

FIM-92A Stinger Weapons System: RMP & Basic The Stinger missile, a full-dimensional protection weapon, is the Army's system for short-range air defense that provides the ground maneuver commander force protection against low-altitude airborne targets such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise missiles. Developed by the United States Army Missile Command, the Stinger was the successor to the Redeye Weapon System. Considering the missile seeker's relatively small field of view, the capability to accurately direct the seeker onto a target being tracked by the MMS is a significant advantage. www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/stinger.htm   (1353 words)

Howstuffworks "How Stinger Missiles Work" The reason we hear so much about the Stinger in these contexts is because the Stinger missile is an extremely effective weapon for shooting down aircraft. The Stinger missile is something that appears in the news every time there is an armed conflict involving United States forces. The missile uses an infrared seeker to lock on to the heat in the engine's exhaust, and will hit nearly anything flying below 11,000 feet. www.howstuffworks.com /stinger.htm   (119 words)

www.GovExec.com - Homeland Security weighs airliner anti-missile system (5/28/03) In a separate report released in February, the Congressional Research Service said thousands of shoulder-fired missiles are unaccounted for, are available at a relatively low price on the black market, and, because of their size, are easy to conceal. At the urging of some members of Congress, the Homeland Security Department is considering a $10 billion project to protect the nation's commercial jet fleet from shoulder-fired missiles, but with the administration already cutting back on some security measures to save money, it is not clear whether the effort will survive the budgeting process. While military aircraft use infrared devices and flares to confuse the heat-seeking missiles, the Pentagon and others say flares would not be useful for commercial jets because of fires and other problems they might cause in populated areas. www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0503/052803cd1.htm   (608 words)

List of modern weapons - Simple English Wikipedia List of crew served weapons of the US Armed Forces List of individual weapons of the US Armed Forces See also list of aircraft for individual aircraft types and list of aircraft weapons for munitions carried by aircraft]] simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_modern_weapons   (126 words)

Untitled Man-portable shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, which have been developed by militaries of the United States, Russia and Great Britain, are possibly the next logical weapon of choice for terrorists. Interestingly, the first Stinger missiles were captured by a Soviet Special Forces team south of Kandahar, but later some “surplus” Stingers were bought by Khad (Afghan communist government KGB counterpart) agents at the well-known weapons market in Rabati-Jali near the Pakistani border. The missile warhead is too weak to cause any serious damage to a building, and a car’s heat signature is not strong enough for a missile’s heat-seeking warhead to lock on. www.blackwaterusa.com /btw2004/articles/1018timgus.html   (1742 words)

Chinese Defence Today - QW-2 Shoulder-Launched Air Defence Missile Chinese Defence Today - QW-2 Shoulder-Launched Air Defence Missile The missile is based on the QW-1's rocket motor, but its launcher and the missile bare strong resemblance to the Russian 9K310 Igla-1 (SA-16 Gimlet). The missile was based on the QW-1, but upgraded with the Russian 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO codename: SA-16 Gimlet) technology. www.sinodefence.com /army/antiaircraft/qw2.asp   (167 words)

CNN.com - Three arrested in missile-smuggling case - Aug. 13, 2003 A failed attempt in November to shoot down an Israeli charter jet with a shoulder-fired missile as it took off from the airport in Mombasa, Kenya, was a "wake-up call" for U.S. intelligence agencies, several officials said, underscoring the vulnerability of airliners. Lakhani arranged for the missile to be shipped to the United States, without explosives, with full knowledge of the United States, the sources said. A man who authorities say plotted to sell a surface-to-air missile to what he thought was a Muslim extremist is expected to appear in a New Jersey courtroom today after being nabbed with two others Tuesday in an elaborate FBI sting operation. www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/12/terror.arrest   (903 words)

Chinese Defence Today - QW-1 Shoulder-Launched Air Defence Missile Chinese Defence Today - QW-1 Shoulder-Launched Air Defence Missile The missile is powered by a solid rocket engine, and has a maximum range of 5km against low flying airborne targets. The missile was developed in the early 1990s as a successor to the HN-5. www.sinodefence.com /army/antiaircraft/qw1.asp   (332 words)

Panzerschreck The weapon is shoulder-launched and fires a rocket-propelled, fin-stabilised grenade with a shaped charge warhead. When used in the hands of well trained Panzergrenadier units, this weapon became the stuff of nightmare for allied armored division which had to reinforce their tanks with sandbags, treads etc. Whereas the early bazooka shells had problems with German 100mm armor, notably on the Tiger tank, the more advanced Panzerschreck shells could penetrate over 200mm of armor by the end of the war, enough to deal with any tank fielded at the time. www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Panzerschreck   (290 words)

Multipurpose Individual Munition / Predator Short Range Assault Weapon (MPIM/SRAW) The shoulder-launched missile consists of a two- stage, soft- launch propulsion system with inertial guidance and explosively- formed penetrator with follow- through grenade warhead. Once launched, the missile flies in a top-attack (i.e., fly over, shoot down) profile and uses optical and magnetic sensors to detect the target and detonate the warhead. The missile is capable of firing quickly from its carrying configuration and is safely fired from enclosures. www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/sraw.htm   (1412 words)

Air Safety Week - the shoulder-launched missile threat and its countermeasures Industry sources speculate the missiles may have been launched prematurely by anxious gunners, and perhaps too close to the airliner to stabilize and lock onto the target (the potential role of defensive avionics on Israeli airliners, often rumored, has not entered public discussions of the incident). The serious discussion about the demonstrated missile threat to airliners stands in sharp contrast to the lack of focus, to say the least, regarding the hijacking threat prior to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. There is no question that a successful missile attack on a U.S. airliner would shut down the industry, and keep it grounded until aircraft were retrofitted with defensive systems. www.iasa-intl.com /folders/belfast/ASW18Aug03.htm   (5712 words)

Three Face Court After Missile Sting The weapon, thought to be a sophisticated shoulder-launched missile, was tracked by the security authorities until it arrived in the United States on Tuesday. The threat to passenger aircraft from surface-to-air missiles was underlined last November when an Israeli charter plane was fired on as it left Mombasa airport in Kenya. That attack failed, but America's Department of Homeland Security is at present evaluating at least twelve overseas airports to assess their vulnerability to a missile launch. news.airwise.com /stories/2003/08/1060770176.html   (247 words)

PPRuNe Forums - Shoulder Launched Missile Threat Because they are designed to be launched from the shoulder of a man standing up, they have small warheads, usually with a fragmentation charge. And if the missiles really would only blow off an engine then they'd be pretty wazz weapons. These missiles are all IR (i.e heat seking) and designed to be effective against low flying fast jets and helicopters. www.pprune.org /forums/showthread.php?s=ee95c8fb264fed254f0c9b197e153ccb&threadid=73398   (2019 words)

Briton held in scheme to sell missile - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics It is a portable, shoulder-launched short-range missile system, comprising a missile and a launching mechanism. The unidentified man, described only as being of Indian descent, sought to sell a portable, shoulder-fired Igla SA-18 missile and launcher to an undercover FBI agent who he thought was a Muslim extremist. The missile had been intercepted by FBI agents and, unknown to the arms dealer, rendered incapable of being fired, the authorities said. www.washtimes.com /national/20030813-120408-5099r.htm   (736 words)

Australian Society The NATO reporting name of each missile is shown in parentheses behind the proper name. Below is a list of (links to pages on) missiles, sorted alphabetically by country of origin. Hsiung Feng III (HF-3) (antiship and/or land attack cruise missile) australiansociety.org /index.php?title=List_of_missiles   (263 words)

Online NewsHour: Missile Sting -- August 13, 2003 There are Singer missiles, which are U.S. missiles, that are out there too; approximately 900 were transferred to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and there are about 100 that are now unaccounted for. I should add that the missiles that were discovered in Saudi Arabia in an aborted plot to destroy an American jet were in the same production run as the missiles that were found in Mombasa. As David said, we're talking about a slant range from the point that the aircraft is, that the missile is fired to the aircraft of well over a mile, couple or three miles, up to an altitude of over 10,000 feet. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec03/sting_8-13.html   (1909 words)

U.S. seeks help tracking shoulder-fired missiles - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com WASHINGTON - The United States will seek international help in tracking shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles that have increasingly fallen into terrorist hands and now represent a significant threat to commercial aircraft, a Department of Homeland Security official said Thursday. A U.S. soldier aims a Stinger missile launcher during a military exercise in South Korea.  Thousands of such shoulder-fired missiles may be in the hands of terrorist groups, a congressional report says. Reason for such high concern:  Some 30 countries make the light but lethal weapons and about 1 percent of the worldwide total, or 7,500, are beyond any kind of formal government control, the GAO report said. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5137264   (1004 words)

Battlefield 2 Official Community Site - Planet Battlefield First, we have the NOS Rocket Launcher - This shoulder-launched missile weapon fires a NOS-propelled rocket filled with explosives that can destroy vehicles as well as splatter humans and mutants. We also have two more weapon renders to show you today and now have nearly 1/3 of our 57 weapons in game, most of the rest are finished the modeling phase, and only a handfull left that still need to be started. We have 13 weapons in game now, but some of the others are done and are just waiting their turn to get in the mod. www.planetbattlefield.com /bf2   (6245 words)

Army Technology - Starstreak - Close Air Defense Missile The Starstreak self-propelled high-velocity missile (SP HVM) system has been in service with the British Army since 1997, the Lightweight Multiple Launcher (LML) and shoulder-launched versions since September 2000. A pulse of power from the missile firing unit causes the first-stage motor to ignite, which accelerates the missile. A panoramic weapon sight is supplied by Avimo (now part of Thales) and is located at the front right of the vehicle. www.army-technology.com /projects/starstreak/index.html   (934 words)

(Balkans shoulder-launched) MISSILE CELL 'LOST' (as they approached Britain) SECURITY services are desperately trying to trace a gang of terrorists armed with shoulder-launched missiles they had tracked across Europe - but lost as they approached Britain. While the SA-7 is an effective MANPADS missile versus a lumbering passenger jet, it still lacks the sophistication of American third generation Stinger missiles -- the preferred weapon for knocking down planes. But shoulder-fired missiles go about as fast as rifle bullets, and they most certainly can reach 10,000 feet. www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/849559/posts   (1600 words)

Rocket launcher a mobile launch platform for an ICBM or cruise missile a launcher for multiple smaller missiles, such as Stalin's Organ www.free-download-soft.com /info/eserv.html   (50 words)

Figure 3-7.  Mk-153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) approximately 200 m of missile flight to gain Click here to make tpub.com your Home Page www.tpub.com /content/USMC/mcwp3155/css/mcwp3155_40.htm   (83 words)

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