What is a keating Stinger?

Comtech James Keating Self Defense Manipulator Key Chain Stinger. The Stinger is a perfect tool for self defense. Light, durable and effective it can be used by anyone, anywhere and in any situation where you need to defend yourself.

What does a self defense Stinger do?

When held properly, the Stinger aligns itself with the arm bones and its blunt nose becomes an effective power focus. A strike anywhere with the Stinger will bring instant pain to the bad guy. This disrupts his thought process taking his focus off of you and putting it on himself.

What is the Stinger Weapon System?

The U.S. Army’s shoulder-fired STINGER Weapon System provides effective, short-range air defense capabilities to soldiers and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), U.S. Navy (USN), and U.S. Air Force (USAF) ground personnel who defend against low-level fixed and rotary-wing aircraft attack.

How did the Stinger light machine gun come to be?

Which is precisely how a few United States Marines designed and built the “Stinger” light machine gun (LMG) during the lead-up to the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945. The Stinger was a Browning .30 caliber AN/M2, salvaged from a crashed or otherwise inoperable aircraft, that was modified for use by infantry.

How many missiles does a stinger have?

Mounted on the turret are a.50 caliber M3P machine gun and two Standard Vehicle Missile Launchers (SVMLs), both of which contain four STINGER missiles. It is operated by a two-man crew for defense against helicopters and fixed wing aircraft at low altitude, day or night, and in clear or adverse weather.

Was the Stinger meant to be accurate?

But as the Stinger was meant to be used as a suppressive weapon in relatively close quarters, pinpoint accuracy was never really the goal. The Stinger was born, and just in time. Supposedly the finishing touches were still being made on the guns even as the Marines sailed towards Iwo Jima.