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If you want to produce them in volume you don't want them to be brand new state of the art expensive.

Putting Igla-S into mass production makes sense because you can make enormous numbers... and over the next five years you can buy Verba for special situations where the extra performance might make some difference, but in 4-5 years you swap over to production of Verba and that gives you a large base of good decent MANPADS and also a supply of modern MANPADS every bit as good as any anywhere else in the world.

I would also suggest you licence produce Pine, or Sosna, because being a laser beam riding missile the target would have serious trouble defeating the missile with flares and chaff and even DIRCMs because the missile does not look at the launcher, it looks back a the launcher for a laser beam that it rides on and it moves at significant speed and can reach targets 10km away.

The missile is very fast and relatively cheap with optics being used to find and track targets... you could probably develop a version with a MMW radar that can track the target and perhaps direct the missile via radar signals like Khrisantema for use in Monsoon rain or snow or brown out dust or sand storms.

Or you could add Khrisantema to your licence production family...

Anti vehicle and anti aircraft weapons and drones.