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MPADS (plural MPADS)

  1. Alternative form of MANPADS (handheld anti-aircraft missile)
    • 2020, Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:
      This emergent technique was based on the successful appearance of man-portable air-defence systems (MPADS), including anti-aircraft missiles used during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, []