The Venezuelan Surface-To-Air Missile Threat

 I  looked up the missile involved...President Maduro says he has 5,000 Russian-made (SA-24) shoulder-launched missiles to counter the US.

Well....these were made in 2008, and shipped to Venezuela in 2009.

There's a shelf-life on the container....mostly because of the battery on the system.  Ten years is the shelf-life.

So around 2018/2019....it hit the peak. 

Still operational today?  You could open a hundred containers and find some working, but it's hit-and-miss.  Out of 5,000, I would imagine probably 300-to-500 might still launch. Stored in a protected temperature situation? Unknown.  

Possibility that some were sold out of the backdoor?  Maybe.