QW-2 MANPADS of Bangladesh Army — Nafis Fuad Ayon · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Shoulder-fired air defence (MANPADS)

Infantry

Man-portable air-defence systems: small heat-seeking missiles fired from a soldier's shoulder at low-flying aircraft, helicopters and drones. They are cheap and easy to hide, so they make low flying dangerous for any air force.
Because of the risk to civilian airliners, their sale and transfer are tightly controlled internationally.

Well-known examples

**Stinger**Audiovisuele Dienst Koninklijke Landmacht (AVDKL) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

**Igla**Vitaly V. Kuzmin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

**Starstreak**Capt. Joseph Bush · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Mistral**Admiralis-generalis-Aladeen · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

**FN-6**颐园居 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Well-known examples — All

Stinger (USA) Igla & Verba (Russia) Starstreak (UK) Mistral (France) FN-6 & QW-2 (China)