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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by midoridensha on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:40PM (#34255201)
MANPADS is for shooting down aircraft ("ADS" = air defense system). You're thinking of the Javelin and NLAW anti-tank weapons. Anti-tank rockets have been around for many decades; they're nothing new, but the latest ones are just more effective and have better range. IIRC, the Javelin itself was designed and first deployed back in the 1990s, so it's not exactly new either. What's new in the Ukraine conflict is that Russians apparently don't know how to (or just can't) properly operate tank battalions.

Back to MANPADS: man-portable anti-aircraft weapons aren't new either. The US was giving Stingers to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan back in the 1980s to shoot down Soviet aircraft.

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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by anonreeeeplor on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:43PM (#34255653)
I am in the Ukrainian army. Sometimes, for fun, we shoot MANPADS at the tanks because we already took down all the jets. It’s super fun you should try enlisting.
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