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Other agreements to try to stop the spread and the sale of those so-called manpads, shoulder-launched missiles that could be used by terrorists groups against commercial airliners.
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The toppled dictator is known to have invested in a large supply of man-portable air defence systems, known as manpads, and it is now feared they could flood the black market following the collapse of his regime.
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There are over 20,000 manpads man-portable air-defense systems, commonly known as shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, and the opposition has been able to secure a lot of this.
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There are over 20,000 manpads man-portable air-defense systems, commonly known as shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, and the opposition has been able to secure a lot of this.
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There are over 20,000 manpads man-portable air-defense systems, commonly known as shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, and the opposition has been able to secure a lot of this.
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They are a danger, but security measures on the missile reduce the risk to a level comparable to the cheap unreliable manpads.
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The expensive manpads can hit the modern jet reliably from accessible locations, but in addition to being expensive, they are intentionally designed with some hard to get short life parts (like weird custom batteries) so that they have a short usable life if stolen.
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The likelihood is very low, because the cheap manpads have trouble hitting modern jets from accessible locations around airports.
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The Ministry of Defence MoD said it had been working since last month to try to prevent the proliferation of manpads.
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We knew at the start the Gaddafi regime had invested heavily in manpads.
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