Stinger

Overview

All U.S. services and 29 other countries have deployed the Stinger missile, launching from a number of platforms: the shoulder-launched Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS), Avenger (HMMWV), the AH-64E Apache helicopter, and Special Operations Black Hawks (MH-60). The Stinger missile is launched by a small launch motor that pushes it a safe distance from the operator before engaging the main flight motor, both solid propellant rocket motors provided by Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company.

Image Gallery

A soldier fires a missile from a shoulder launcher in a field

Jan. 14, 2019 - U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Ron Miller, student, Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Section, Marine Corps Communication Electronics School (MCCES), takes part in LAAD training at Led Mountain, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Rachel K. Young)

Feb. 24, 2016 - U.S. Marines fire a FIM-92C Stinger missile during Exercise Cold Response 16 at Orland, Norway. (Marine Corps/ Cpl. Rebecca Floto)

Sept. 6, 2016 - U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the North Dakota National Guard fire a Stinger Missile, during a live-fire training exercise, during Decisive Action Rotation 16-09, at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif. (U.S. Army/Spc. Kyle Edwards, Operations Group, National Training Center)

Sept. 13, 2006 - U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tony L. Moore, left, coaches a 2nd LAAD Marine as they fire a Stinger missile during training at Onslow Beach on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Jan. 14, 2019 - U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Ron Miller, student, Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Section, Marine Corps Communication Electronics School (MCCES), takes part in LAAD training at Led Mountain, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Lance Cpl. Rachel K. Young)