{"id":54778,"date":"2014-08-26T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54778"},"modified":"2014-08-26T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:29:04","slug":"isis-may-have-manpads-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54778","title":{"rendered":"ISIS May Have MANPADS Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Syrian airbase that ISIS overran the other day?\u00a0 Well, it looks like they might have obtained a few useful things when they took it.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of useful items?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2014\/08\/25\/islamic-state-might-have-taken-advanced-manpads-from-syrian-airfield\/\">Try advanced MANPADS<\/a>, for starters.\u00a0 The <em>Washington Post<\/em> is reporting that a cache of MANPADS were among the items ISIS obtained when they took that Syrian base.\u00a0 The MANPADS obtained were reportedly SA-16s, although at least one photo released may be that of an SA-18.<\/p>\n<p>Along with MANPADS, ISIS reputedly obtained MIG-21s and AIM-9 Sidewinders as well when it captured the base.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll need qualified pilots, facilities, and maintenance personnel to use the latter two items of course.\u00a0 But MANPADS aren&#8217;t that difficult to use &#8211; and if they captured the systems, presumably ISIS also captured a number of Arabic-language manuals as well.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re, well, man-portable.<\/p>\n<p>If true, this is not good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Syrian airbase that ISIS overran the other day?\u00a0 Well, it looks like they might &hellip; <a title=\"ISIS May Have MANPADS Now\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54778\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISIS May Have MANPADS Now<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}