Thomas died from a gunshot wound to the shoulder, fired from the gun of one of his colleagues.
Stephanopoulos says that the White House keeps saying that they don't want these rebels to have "shoulder fired missiles" (ha, you mean we can't trust them with our commercial-airlines-destroying shoulder fired missiles? I wonder why?) and that the rebels are already getting enough support from other Gulf states.
The US provided shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles to rebels fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, he noted, and "could have done the same" in Syria, he said.
The principal worry, he said, was fire from RPG-7s, a shoulder-fired anti-armor weapon that at short ranges can be effective against helicopters, too.
Carried and fired by a single fighter, the missiles travel at supersonic speeds from a shoulder-fired launcher toward the heat emitted by an aircraft engine, where they detonate a high-explosive charge.
Sergeant Littlefield also said he had no idea the helicopter had been struck by a missile fired by Iraqi insurgents, whom witnesses said had hidden in a date grove with a shoulder-fired missile launcher.
Israeli manufacturer FAB Defense offers a complete PDW conversion kit for the Five-seven, designated the KPOS G2 FN 5.7, that allows the pistol to be reconfigured into a shoulder-fired personal defense weapon, and CornerShot offers a weapon system compatible with the Five-seven thallowsows the shooter to aim and fire around corners without being exposed.
The SA-7, however, is a shoulder-fired missile.
Their helicopter was shot down with a shoulder-fired missile.
Chechen rebels said they brought the helicopter down with a shoulder-fired missile.
Mr. Arnaout was photographed holding rifles and a shoulder-fired rocket.
