Germany Delivers 1,000th Stinger

LFK GmbH has delivered the 10,000th Stinger MANPADS surface-to-air missile from its German production line. Since 1994, LFK has been charged with European licence-production of the Stinger system and has delivered missiles to Germany, Turkey, Greece and the Netherlands. Each of the customer nations are also participants in the overall industrial program, making up the European Stinger Project Group. LFK is the prime contractor. ) and Greece (9 per cent) ­ figures derived from the number of missiles each country is acquiring. LFK views Stinger as NATO's de facto man-portable SAM system. The missile is in service with all three branches of the German armed forces and has been adopted as the air-to-air missile of choice for German versions of the Tiger combat helicopter.

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