Airsupport - how is it represented?

[Alex]

I mean - interesting what is functional of the Stinger in game, is this will be work like AA weapon?

[Frenchy]

I knew one of those US advisors. He also served as a battalion commander during WW2. Also served in Nam. Retired as a BG. Passed away a few years.

Well it means what it says.

The CIA either directly or via some proxies supplied them with Stingers and other weapons to help them in their war against the Soviets.

Of course US Foreign Policy being as far sighted as it is, they didn't realise that the "enemy of my enemy" now would become more simply "my enemy" a couple of decades later.

[Clavicula_Nox]

But what are they going to shoot at? The muj didn't have much of an air wing .

They were used as direct fire support at range.

[John Kettler]

bodkin,

Correct, but Stingers were much easier to transport. From Kuperman's analysis section Initial Impact in Hist2004's post here. (Fair use)

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?125913-The-Real-Charlie-Wilson

the weapon more of a liability than an asset.” It was especially ill-suited to Afghanistan’s mountainous terrain, since “the long, heavy, cumbersome barrel had to be positioned across the animal, making it impossible to go through defiles, where it snagged on every bush.”

Regards,

John Kettler