FIM-92 Stinger

A stinger missile

### Type

Man-portable Air Defense systems, Anti-aircraft and anti-starfighter missile systems.

## Production information

### Unit cost

FIM-92A: U.S.$38,000 (missile only, 1980 FY, currently $119,320 2020 FY)

### Variants

FIM-92A, FIM-92B, FIM-92C, FIM-92D, FIM-92G

## Technical specifications

### Mass

Missile – 22 lb (10.1 kg)System – 35 lb (15.7 kg)

### Length

At launch – 5 ft (1.53 m)In flight – 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)

## Usage

### Wars

* Falklands War (1982)
* Soviet–Afghan War (1979-1989)
* Iran–Iraq War(1980-1988)
* Gulf War
* Angolan Civil War (1975-1991)
* Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-1992)
* Invasion of Grenada
* Clone Wars
	+ Terran Campaign
* First War in Afghanistan
* War on Terror
* Second War in Afghanistan
* Iraqi Insurgency
* First Galactic Civil War
* Second Galactic Civil War

### Counterpart(s)

* 9K38 Igla/SA-18 Grouse
* 9K333 Verba/SA-29 Gizmo
* FN-6/CH-SA-10
* PZR Grom
* PPZR Piorun
* Mistral SHORAD
* Type 91 Hand Arrow

### Affiliation

* Terran Alliance
	+ Terran Army
	+ Terran Marine Corps
* Rebel Alliance
	+ Alliance Army

-Terrorists

* Taliban
* Terran Liberation Front
* Al-Qaeda
* ISIS

* New Republic
	+ New Republic Army
* Galactic resistance

### Used by

* Terran Infantry
* Rebel Trooper
* New Republic Army trooper
* Galactic Resistance fighter

The **FIM-92 Stinger** is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS). It entered service in 1981 and is used by the militaries of the United States and 29 other countries. It is principally manufactured by Raytheon Missiles & Defense and is produced under license by Airbus Defence and Space in Germany and by Roketsan in Turkey.

The Stingers along with the FIM-43 Redeye, was used by the US along with it's NATO and non-NATO allies during the Terran Campaign in Clone Wars, some of these MANPAD systems successfully destroyed and shoot-down many of the CIS Droid fighters and VTOL droids during the Battles of New York, California, Germany, Australia and others. It also been used by the Terran Forces in many battles of the Clone Wars in the Andromeda Galaxy until it's end in 1994. After the Clone Wars, the Stingers which replaced the Redeyes became a mass-produced MANPAD systems along with the QW-1 Vanguards and FN-6 Crossbow of China, the 9K38 Igla/SA-18 Grouse and 9K333 Verba/SA-29 Gizmo of Russia, the Mistral of France, the RBS-70 of Sweden and the Starstreak of UK as man-portable air-defense systems. On the final years of the Intergalactic Cold War between Terran Alliance and Galactic Empire, the US government provided some of the Stinger missiles to the members of the Rebel Alliance as part of their assistance on their fight against the Empire and in 2013 the Terran Forces were finally involved fighting against the Empire and use the Stingers as an anti-Starfighter weapon, it is noted that during the Empire's invasion of Earth the Stingers are widely used by the majority of US forces fighting against the Empire's TIE Fighters, which effectively killing both of their fighters and specially trained pilots. In the following years, the Stingers continued their use as an MANPAD systems for both Terran Alliance and Rebel Alliance which later became the New Republic as well as the Galactic Resistance at the Second Galactic Civil War of 2050s against the First Order.

## Gallery

A squad of Taliban fighters with Stingers, obtained after the Soviet-Afghan War, later used in both First and Second War in Afghanistan.