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Portable air defence1990 to presentProfile in progress
Man-portable air-defense system
Starburst (missile) is a man-portable air-defense system originating in United Kingdom. It was built by Thales Air Defence.
United KingdomMan-portable air-defense system
United Kingdom
1990 to present
See Operators
Gulf War
Thales Air Defence and Thomson-CSF
Thales Air Defence
1986 to 2001
13,389
See Variants
Missile: 15.2 kilograms (34 lb) Launcher: 8.5 kilograms (19 lb)
139 centimetres (55 in)
197 millimetres (7.8 in)
Mach 2
0.5–7 kilometres (0.19–4.35 mi)
Optical sight
High explosive fragmentation
2.74 kg
Beam-riding
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True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Starburst (missile) equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
KuwaitReported count for Starburst (missile). Service scope: Kuwait Air Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 50. Origin: United Kingdom. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.