- "What about the Stingers?"
"What do you know about Stingers?" - ― James Bond and Franz Sanchez
FIM-92 Stinger, also known as Stinger Missile or just Stinger, is a infrared-homing surface-to-air missile featured in James Bond media.
Produced by the American defense conglomerate Raytheon, the Stinger Missile is intended to be used against low-flying aerial targets. It is primarily fired from man-portable, shoulder-fired launchers (MANPADS), but can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground and naval vehicles, as well as from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air missile.
They appear in Licence to Kill, where they are portrayed as shoulder-fired rocket launcher and are used by Franz Sanchez and Perez. They had also been fitted to James Bond's BMW Z3 in GoldenEye
History[]
Licence to Kill (film)[]
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GoldenEye (film)[]
- "Now, this I'm particularly proud of. Behind the headlights, Stinger missiles."
"Excellent. Just the thing for unwinding after a rough day." - ― Q and James Bond
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Behind the scenes[]
FIM-43 Redeye (above) and the FIM-92 Stinger (below). The above design is used to pose as the design below in the movie Licence to Kill.
The "stingers" presented in Licence to Kill are actually the FIM-43 Redeye surface-to-air missile launchers, which is the predecessor design to the FIM-92 Stinger. Although the two designs are quite similar, they can be distinguished with their grip stock, with Redeye having a shorter one that causes the battery/gas/coolant unit in front of the trigger/grip to stick out more. Also, Stinger's sight assembly is further away from the barrel, with Redeye's being rather close.
The launcher is also erroneously portrayed as being reloadable - akin to classic Bazooka - since both Redeye and Stinger launch tubes are fire-and-forget single-use only. Another error is that neither the Redeye nor Stinger Missile Launchers' aiming system cannot lock onto ground targets, meaning Perez could not have used it against the tanker truck unless the aiming system was fiddled with.
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Trivia[]
- The Stinger missiles were been removed from the Licence to Kill novelisation, being instead replaced with an advanced hand-controlled missile launcher. This change is probably because John Gardner was aware that Stinger Missile Launcher's aiming system cannot lock onto ground targets like tanker trucks.