Editing FIM-92 Stinger (section)

===Angolan civil war===
The [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]] provided 310 Stingers to [[Jonas Savimbi]]'s [[UNITA]] movement in [[Angola]] between 1986 and 1989.<ref name=trade>{{cite web |url=http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/trade_register.php |title=Trade Registers |publisher=Armstrade.sipri.org |access-date=2013-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513073842/http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/trade_register.php |archive-date=2011-05-13 |url-status=live }}</ref> As in Afghanistan, efforts to recover missiles after the end of hostilities proved incomplete. The battery of a Stinger lasts for four or five years, so any battery supplied in the 1980s would now be inoperative<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/116582/|title=Stingers, Stingers, Who's Got the Stingers?|work=Slate|last=Silverstein|first=Ken|date=3 October 2001|access-date=1 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131080741/http://www.slate.com/id/116582/|archive-date=31 January 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> but during the [[Syrian Civil War]], insurgents showed how easily they switched to different batteries, including common car batteries, as power sources for several MANPADS models.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://armamentresearch.com/improvised-manpads-batteries-employed-in-syria/|title=Improvised MANPADS batteries employed in Syria {{!}} Armament Research Services|website=armamentresearch.com|date=22 July 2014|access-date=2016-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725102315/http://armamentresearch.com/improvised-manpads-batteries-employed-in-syria/|archive-date=2016-07-25|url-status=live}}</ref>