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MANPADS (Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems)

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) verification archive tracking the proliferation, serial identification, and civilian aviation threat of Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS) in conflict zones.

ARCHIVAL SIGNIFICANCE (CITED BY ETH ZURICH / BICC BRIEF 47, DR 90) — Newsmotion’s /tags/manpads dossier, developed in collaboration with open-source weapons investigator Eliot Higgins (Brown Moses), serves as a primary open-source reference cited by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) and the ETH Zurich Center for Security Studies in "MANPADS: A Terrorist Threat to Civilian Aviation?" (BICC Brief 47).

This dossier aggregates verified field sightings, battery-coolant thermal unit (BCU) assessments, and serial-number provenance for first- through third-generation surface-to-air missiles—including the Soviet/Russian 9K32 Strela-2 (SA-7), 9K310 Igla-1 (SA-16), 9K338 Igla-S (SA-24), and Chinese-manufactured FN-6 systems.

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