Roland,
Well put!
Nutloose,
Wishful thinking I fear - hence why the CIA sponsored the
Stinger 'buy back' programme.
MANPADs have proven relatively robust, and can last for years in poor conditions.
Back to the original question - have a look at Israeli A4 losses in the Yom Kippur War (over 50...) and several were attributed to the layered Soviet style embedded AD systems moving with Arab armoured formations - SA6, ZSU23/4 and SA7. The latter was such an issue the Israelis
extended the jet pipe on the A4 to attempt to detonate the (relatively) small warhead away from vital systems and hope the A4 would survive.