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by mikeyouse 2533 days ago
Not at all useful, needs to be fired from the air, from a specific outdated French jet weapon system that essentially nobody uses any more. Speculation was that maybe Libya would have a use for it. And yes, its target needs to be painted with a radar for the entire flight.

30kg of high explosive could be useful to a generic terrorist but it's unlikely that the missile itself would have been used.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28976/italian-cops-rai...

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That's kind of what I thought.

But then the asking price seems high, it doesn't seem to have a warhead so this is just the missile.

I would be much more concerned about the Chinese MANPADs that Qatar acquired and made their way into Syria and beyond.