The Missile Threat
While the man-portable antiaircraft missile threat is probably exaggerated by the media, it does exist, as was seen in November 2003 in Iraq and in 2002 in East Africa. In the former incident, a DHL Airbus A300 freighter was struck by a shoulder-launched heat-seeking missile while departing Baghdad...
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