1. Manpads are already pretty common
2. A-10 has both jamming and flare countermeasures against infrared.
3. Anything terrorist groups can acquire are probably going to be infrared MANPADs. My guess is ISIL would probably have acquired MANPADs from the large cache of SA-7 MANPADs Gaddafi stocked, meaning they&#x27;re all likely infrared MANPADs.<p>A-10s are not invulnerable against MANPADs, but they&#x27;re not helpless against them either. In fact, one of the biggest reasons the air force hated the A-10 was because it was &quot;too slow&quot; and could be &quot;easily&quot; hit by a SA-7