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First Stinger Missile Launch in Afghanistan: A Turning Point in the Soviet-Afghan War

In August 1986, a group of Afghan mujahideen, trained by Pakistanis and monitored by the US, used Stinger missiles for the first time against Soviet helicopters near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, resulting in three destroyed helicopters and marking a turning point in the war.

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