{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Stingers weren't the superweapon in the Soviet-Afghan War that the US suppliers puffed them up to be, and mostly influenced...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/658816577505050624/", "html": "<p>Stingers weren&rsquo;t the superweapon in the Soviet-Afghan War that the US suppliers puffed them up to be, and mostly influenced things via Soviet planners and pilots having to factor in the <i>possibility</i> that any given infantry might have an AA capacity, while most mujahideen-downed Hinds were downed with AA gun emplacements</p>"}