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MANPADS: USA-Hungary agreement to destroy 1540 missiles
Budapest, Hungary - Another step forward to prevent the deployment of such weapon systems by terroristic organizations
A dozen countries achieved agreements with the United States to encourage the destruction of very short range surface-to-air portable missiles (MANPADS, Man-portable air defence system). Hungary was added to the list last September by signing a deal to destroy some 1540 SA-7 Grail (Strela) former Soviet-made systems from its own arsenal, and these ones are added to a total number of 13,000 same-class...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 128341
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency