Overestimating Manpads
As a current airline pilot and the director of the Manpad Task Force, I strongly disagree with the recent viewpoint by Rachel Ehrenfeld (AW&ST Feb. 17, p. 58). Man-portable air-defense systems (Manpads) are highly effective against helicopters and light fixed-wing aircraft; that is what they were...
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