re: russian invasion of ukraine (military hardware), noteworthy ukrainian success, twitter link
@starseeker @Felthry Yup. A friend of mine who's taught military history before likened it to hitting a bullet with an arrow. Unless the Stinger was launched almost immediately after the Tochka, from a close enough range to give the former a chance to intercept before the latter exceeds its top speed, it's a virtual impossibility for the Stinger to make an intercept.
re: russian invasion of ukraine (military hardware), noteworthy ukrainian success, twitter link
@Felthry The FIM-92 Stinger is a man-portable shoulder-fired anti-air missile developed in 1981 that tracks infrared signatures and has a reported top speed of Mach 2.54.
The Tochka-U is a tactical ballistic missile that dates back to 1976 at the oldest, with a reported top speed of Mach 5.3.
Assuming reports are correct, that is one *hell* of a shoot-down when you take their top speeds into account.