"The Russian Airborne Troops new Verba MANPADS... " Topic

… portable air defense missile system.

"The Russian Airborne Forces have started receiving the newest Verba man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) equipped with an automated fire control system that has no foreign rival, military spokesman Yevgeny Meshkov said Friday, May 30, 2014.

"The surface to air-missile regiment of the Ivankvsky Airborne Forces division is the first to have started receiving and studying the modern system of air defense battle," Meshkov said.

The systems automatically provide information on the air environment, fix the target and command a strike against the target within several seconds. "This gives time to an AA sniper armed with the Verba MANPADS to prepare for the meeting and hit the target beforehand," he said…"

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…has no foreign rival…

Brave claim

I wonder if these are some of the tools being used in the Ukraine. Not a blue fez thing, but a question of what is being used to shoot down the helicopters and aircraft.

Helicopters are lightly armoured, at best. The Hip is a flying tin can, the Hind has limited armour to protect the pilot, but engines and rotors are still pretty susceptible to fragments. An old SA-7 would still bring one down, especially one flown by an inexperienced pilot not making the best use of noe cover. No reason to think they were downed by anything particularly advanced.