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  • The missing weapons are the most advanced Russian surface-to-air missile, the SA-24, and an earlier version called the SA-7.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The missing weapons are the most advanced Russian surface-to-air missile, the SA-24, and an earlier version called the SA-7.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • H. H. Deffner An Egyptian soldier holds an SA-7 Grail surface-to-air missile, which is among the weapons smuggles out of Libya.

    Alarm Over Smuggled Libyan Arms Devon Maylie 2011

  • Western and rebel officials in Tripoli said they particularly fear two types of heat-seeking shoulder-launched antiaircraft missiles, the SA-7 and the SA-24, which they believe have proliferated by the hundreds during the war.

    Revenge Feeds Instability in Libya Sam Dagher 2011

  • One report from Jowzjan in 2005 said an Afghan intelligence chief was authorised to pay $5,000 for older SA-7 missiles and $15,000 for a Stinger.

    Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook 2010

  • The great advantage that the portable air defense systems had (Stinger, Redeye, Soviet SA-7, and descendants) was they are simple to use, ruggedized, and very accurate.

    Matthew Yglesias » Tuesday MANPAD Blogging 2007

  • And in order to ground aerial firefighting planes and helos, either unguided rockets, or even a real SA-7/14 type missile to actually hit one of them.

    Boing Boing: May 21, 2006 - May 27, 2006 Archives 2006

  • American soldier who was there when Hamdan was captured and testified that he was driving the car that had surface-to-air missiles, SA-7 missiles, that were intended for al Qaeda.

    CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2008 2008

  • The first witness called today, Wolf, by the way, was a special forces officer, who says -- who testified that he saw Hamdan driving a car that had SA-7 missiles bound for al Qaeda.

    CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2008 2008

  • The West got off nearly unscathed: a Serb SA-7 shoulder-fired missile brought down a French Mirage 2000 jet; the pilots apparently parachuted to safety.

    Make War, Make Peace 2008

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