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  2. FIM-92 Stinger - Wikipedia

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    FIM-92 Stinger. The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS). It entered service in 1981 and is used by the militaries ...

  3. Bee sting - Wikipedia

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    Medication. Antihistamine, epinephrine (for allergic reaction) A bee sting is the wound and pain caused by the stinger of a female bee puncturing skin. Bee stings differ from insect bites, with the venom of stinging insects having considerable chemical variation. The reaction of a person to a bee sting may vary according to the bee species.

  4. Air-to-Air Stinger - Wikipedia

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    Turkish T129 ATAK helicopter with two air-to-air Stinger missiles mounted under-wing. The Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS) [1] (also unofficially called AIM-92 Stinger) is an air-to-air missile system developed from the shoulder-launched FIM-92 Stinger, for use on helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache, T129 ATAK, [2] Eurocopter Tiger, and also UAVs such as the MQ-1 Predator.

  5. Severe reaction to a bee sting as a child signals how ... - AOL

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    Severe reaction to a bee sting as a child signals how concerned you need to be as an adult. When bees sting, they inject a venom that’s mostly water. This allows easy dispersal of the venom ...

  6. Characteristics of common wasps and bees - Wikipedia

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    Dusty yellow to dark brown or black. Black and opaque bright yellow stripes. Black and ivory white markings. Black and dark body with yellow [ b] Black and orange or yellow markings. Coat. Furry (short hair) Furry (long hair) Little or no hair.

  7. Woman survives 1,000 stings from 'killer' bees - AOL

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    A California woman stung more than 1,000 times by a swarm of bees is expected to be okay. Firefighters say the unidentified 71-year-old woman was a covered in a 'suit of bees' when they arrived on ...

  8. Bee swarm attacks California family hospitalizing 3 and ... - AOL

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report stating that between 2011 and 2021 there were 788 deaths from hornet, wasp, and bee stings, an average of 72 deaths per year. The ...

  9. Starstreak - Wikipedia

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    Starstreak is a British short-range surface-to-air missile that can be used as a man-portable air-defence system (MANPADS) or used in heavier systems. It is manufactured by Thales Air Defence (formerly Shorts Missile Systems) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is also known as Starstreak HVM (High Velocity Missile).