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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
Starstreak SAMs (not sure why they would have mixed those with Stingers)
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While both are MANPADS, they have different capabilities. Starstreak is laser-guided, longer-ranged, and can also be used as a surface-to-surface missile (apparently it penetrates about as well as a 40mm Bofors round). The downsides are it's hit-to-kill rather than having a large enough warhead for proximity kills and it's not as useful against fast-moving targets, but it's better against pop-up attack helicopters, which the Stinger's seeker has trouble seeing. There was a Starstreak Avenger that had 1 pod each of Starstreak and Stinger.