Northrop Grumman - Defining the Future



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threat history
2007 IL-76 aircraft shot down in Mogadishu (UN reported); 11 people killed
2003 DHL Airbus 300 aircraft hit on departure from Baghdad, forcing emergency landing
2002 Two MANPADS missiles fired at commercial Boeing 757 aircraft in Kenya, resulting in near miss
2002 MANPADS missile fired at US aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia
2001 UN World Food Program suspends aid flights in Angola due to missile attacks
1999 Soviet aircraft shot down by Chechnyan MANPADS missiles
1999 Angola: Two UN C-130s shot down by MANPADS
1998 Boeing 727 shot down in Congo while taking off from Kinku Airport
1994 Rwanda and Burundi presidents killed by MANPADS on approach to Kigali Airport
1993 Two airliners shot down by MANPADS missiles - 108 killed in Soviet Georgia
1993 FAA cites 22 incidents of airliners being attacked by MANPADS