Sentence examples for a manpads from inspiring English sources

He said by telephone that what is shown "certainly could be a MANPADs".

In 1994, a plane carrying the presidents of Burundi and Rwanda was struck by a Manpads, killing both men and setting off genocide in Rwanda.

It is unclear whether the aircraft was hit, but the telltale sign of a corkscrew-shaped trail of a Manpad missile is clearly visible.

On Monday, a Ukrainian military transport was hit by a missile supposedly from Russia; the plane was beyond the range of a MANPAD.

The video claims that the SU-25 jet was shot down by a Manpad rocket launcher, but the Ukrainian government says the fighters were flying beyond the range of such a weapon.

The Manpads were a very serious matter and you can imagine what a nightmare it would have been for the US or UK if one of their civilian planes was shot down by a Manpad that had gone missing in Libya when they supported the opposition".

The FBI recently nabbed two mosque leaders in Albany, N.Y. for an alleged scheme to buy a Manpad.

However, a MANPAD may or may not include counter-countermeasures (CCMs) that are designed to defeat reactively fired decoys.

A complete manpads system typically requires three interconnecting parts — a narrow tube containing the missile, a battery about the size of a tennis ball that provides power, and a grip stock that balances on a shooter's shoulder and holds the trigger.

This paper continues the work published in [1,2] and describes the method used to model an advanced ManPAD with a rosette scanning seeker head and robust CCMs similar to the Raytheon Stinger RMP.

In one video, an insurgent armed with an older Manpad system known as an SA-7 is seen hiding behind a building, apparently awaiting a target.