The Nation - News from Aug. 25, 1987

Boeing Co., putting itself in line for contracts worth more than a billion dollars, will produce a new Stinger missile to help defend soldiers and tanks from aerial attack. The new Stinger, or PMS, system is one of five programs the Army launched in the last year to compensate for cancellation of the Sgt. York air-defense gun. The Stinger units will be built atop small Army trucks, each with a movable pedestal in its cargo bed with eight Stingers in launch position, plus a .50-caliber machine gun.