Editing FIM-92 Stinger (section)

===United States===
In 2000, the U.S. inventory contained 13,400 missiles. The total cost of the program is $7,281,000,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/stinger.htm|title=FIM-92A Stinger Weapons System: RMP & Basic|access-date=2016-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114140205/http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/stinger.htm|archive-date=2016-01-14|url-status=live}}</ref>
It is rumored that the [[United States Secret Service]] has Stinger missiles to defend the President, a notion that has never been dispelled; however, U.S. Secret Service plans favor moving the President to a safer place in the event of an attack rather than shooting down the plane, lest the missile (or the wreckage of the target aircraft) hit innocents.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/13/us/crash-white-house-defenses-pilot-s-exploit-rattles-white-house-officials.html |title=Crash at the White House: The defenses; Pilot's Exploit Rattles White House Officials |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Stephen Labaton |date=13 September 1994 |access-date=2008-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713194415/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/13/us/crash-white-house-defenses-pilot-s-exploit-rattles-white-house-officials.html |archive-date=13 July 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the 1980s, the Stinger was used to support different US-aligned guerrilla forces, notably the Afghan Mujahidins, the Chad government against the Libyan invasion and the Angolan UNITA. The Nicaraguan contras were not provided with Stingers due to the lack of fixed wing aircraft of the Sandinista government, as such the previous generation [[FIM-43 Redeye]] was considered adequate.<ref name="nytimes" />