The cargo included Semtex, surface to air missiles and 1, 000 AK47 assault rifles.
For example, they are equipped with defensive countermeasures against surface to air missiles which makes them suitable for operations in areas where conventional business jets might fear to fly.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered Tuesday the air defense systems deployed around Washington armed with surface-to-air missiles.
Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.
Patriots, which are surface-to-air missiles, have been deployed to Turkey to protect the country.
Many items will still be banned from Somalia, including surface-to-air missiles, large-calibre guns, howitzers and cannons.
The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics.
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There have been reports that the rebels may have got some portable surface-to-air missiles.
The sale of advanced SA-18 surface-to-air missiles in late 2005 is just one example.
The ship, Yemen says, contained Iranian-made bomb-making material, suicide belts, explosives, rockets, surface-to-air missiles, grenades and ammunition.
There are also launchers for surface-to-air missiles, various gun placements, submarine attack torpedoes and two combat helicopters.
Major-General Henry Osman showed a video which he said showed bomb damage on surface-to-air missiles site near Kandahar.
Iran is defended, but mainly by Soviet-era surface-to-air missiles of a kind the Israelis have dealt with before.
However, he said there was no indication that the rebels were armed with heavy weapons or surface-to-air missiles.
The former president of the Kent Golf Society denies trying to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran.
Their apparent acquisition of surface-to-air missiles has at least given President Bashar al-Assad's air force pause for thought.
Two of its nationals were recently arrested trying to sell Chinese-made QW-2 man-portable surface-to-air missiles in this country.
Myers described the cache as consisting of 40 different bunkers with artillery rounds and other munitions, including 50 surface-to-air missiles.
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Mr Clerides has already said that, if the Cyprus talks fizzle out, he will deploy Russian surface-to-air missiles next year.
On March 24, while undertaking peaceful naval exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, U.S. forces were struck by Libyan surface-to-air missiles.
Many countries are deploying hundreds of surface-to-air missiles and other capabilities intended to deny the U.S. its long-held advantage in airpower.
But without a no-fly zone or plenty of surface-to-air missiles to bring down regime jets many rebels think they will struggle.
The official said Israeli fighter jets targeted a Syrian government convoy carrying surface-to-air missiles bound for the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The plane, with the wingspan of a 737, flies pilotlessly at 20, 000 meters--out of range of all but the best surface-to-air missiles.
Hussein launched a policy of challenging enforcement of those zones in late 1998, deploying surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery against the aircraft.
Their S-300s are upgraded versions of the nuclear-capable SA-10 surface-to-air missiles, thousands of which have been deployed across the former Soviet Union.
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An east London resident wants to take legal action after his apartment complex was earmarked for the use of surface-to-air missiles during the Olympics.
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It clearly demonstrates that the Iranians have been heavily involved in logistical support to the insurgency, often in the form of RPGs, TNT, and surface-to-air missiles.
Now, to get the Russians onboard with this deal, a concession was made by which Moscow would be allowed to sell surface-to-air missiles to the Iranians.
But a US official told the BBC the target had been a convoy carrying SA-17 surface-to-air missiles bound for the Shia militant movement Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon.
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