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Blowpipe

Missile  
United Kingdom

Blowpipe is a British (UK) short-range radio-command-guided man-portable air defence system (MANPADS). Blowpipe uses a hybrid semi-automatic command to line of sight/manual command to line of sight (SACLOS/MCLOS). As such the Blowpipe requires manual guiding using a joystick after the initial semi-automatic gathering of the missile into the line of sight. The Blowpipe MANPADS family is though to have the base British designation K40A1, w...

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