Man-portable air-defense systems are portable shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles. They are guided weapons and are a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters and also used against l
Chinese made QW-2 MANPADS of the Bangladesh Army
An SA-18 (Igla) missile with launch tube and gripstock (top) and an SA-16 (Igla-1) missile and launch tube (bottom)
A U.S. Marine fires a FIM-92 Stinger missile during a July 2009 training exercise in California.
Japanese airmen aiming a Type 91 Kai MANPADS at a mock airborne target in the Pacific Alaskan Range Complex as part of Red Flag – Alaska in 2008.
9K38 Igla
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The 9K38 Igla is a Soviet/Russian man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile system. A simplified, earlier version is known as the 9K310 Igla-1, and the latest variant is the 9K338 Igla-S.
Man-portable air-defense system
…aircraft, giving them a limited capability of head-on and side engagements. Third generation infrared MANPADS, such as the Chinese QW-2, and the Soviet 9K38 Igla, uses dual waveband infra-red tracking; while Chinese HN-6B, French Mistral, and the US FIM-92B, use rosette scanning detectors to produce a quasi-image…
9K338 Igla-S (SA-24) missile and launch tube
Brazilian soldier with 9K38 Igla (SA-18)
Tail section of a USAF A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft showing damage sustained from an Iraqi SA-16 missile during Operation Desert Storm, 15 February 1991