Frickin' crazy what The Google turns up. Granted, in order for this information to be useful one must actually have a Stinger missile, but considering five thousand of them went missing at the fall of Saddam in 2003 (adding to the two thousand that were already out in the open from the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan) and considering the primary reason they weren't as lethal as anticipated was due to "poor training" I guess it's good that the manual isn't in Farsi.
>Permanent deafness will result if personnel are exposed to more than two firings. Proper hearing protection must be worn! wow, i didn't realize these things were so loud. also of interest, there was a fighter pilot AMA on reddit a while back in which the author discussed evasion of singers and other MANPAD in afghanistan, as well as counterfire options. i'll see if i can find it