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Old 09-27-2011, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post
Here's a comforting-ish thought though, framed as a question...what's the shelf life on these?

I remember early on during Operation Bomb the Fuck Out of Afghanistan Then March in and Somehow Not Wind Up Like Alexander, the British, the Indians and the Russians there were questions of our FiM-92s being used against us, but the common answer seemed to be that the batteries were probably long dead, and the cryogenic component for the warheads was long "flat", too.

If these are vintage Strelas, they might not be good for much more than shoulder-fired HE rockets. If that.
Solid rocket fuel degrades. First Gen IR seeker. To long to hide under a trench coat at the Mall.
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