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July 6, 2003: While the Patriot system got a lot of publicity during the Iraq campaign, it was overlooked that there were many even more capable systems available for use against enemy helicopters, cruise missiles and UAVs. There are the Avenger and Linebacker systems. Both mount four Stinger missiles in launch containers, and fire control is either via the gunners sight or from information passed on from a Sentinel radar system (with a 40 kilometers range). While the Stingers have a range of 4.5 kilometers, there are 18-24 Avenger or Linebacker systems in each division, plus a dozen or so more at Corps level. The Avenger is carried in a HMMWV, which is armed with a .50 caliber machine-gun as well. Linebacker is mounted in a Bradley armored vehicle (where the Stingers replace the TOW anti-tank missiles usually carried), that also has its 25mm cannon. So far, no one has provided Avenger or Linebacker with any battlefield targets, although the system has been tested against jets, helicopters, cruise missiles and UAVs successfully.
^Avenger SP-SAM System
^Linebacker SP-SAM/AA System
-------------------- Decima MAS \ When ancient Rome was near defeat, the invincible Tenth Legion was raised: they beat the barbarians on the battlefield and Rome gained peace with honour again. When the traitor, on September the eighth, left the fatherland in infamy, the Tenth Flotilla was raised from the sea and it brought weapons at the cry for honour!
Oh our Tenth Flotilla, you that mocked England, you victorious on Alexandria, Malta, Souda and Gibraltar, you already victorious upon the sea, now even on the dry land you will win!
To you Italian ships, stolen from us not in battle but by treason, and to you, our prisoners and dead brothers, we swear: we swear that we'll came back, let this be God's and the Flag's will. We swear that we'll fight until we obtain an honourable peace!
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