Anti-Missile System Developed For Civilian Passenger Planes
from the take-that dept
Worried about terrorists trying to shoot down your plane? Well, soon, it sounds like passenger airplanes may get special anti-missile systems to protect them against such actions. Not surprisingly, the system is similar to those used by military jets, and uses a series of sensors to note an incoming missile and deploy decoys to hopefully divert the missile.
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Sounds scammy
Also, would we want passenger planes dumping decoys all over the crowded skies and cities? What happens when decoys get sucked into other plane engines? What if a flaming flare lands on somebody's roof, a national forest, and starts a flaming inferno?
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Scammy...perhaps
The bigger question to me (and the reason that commercial countermeasures sound at least a little dubious) is: when has a civilian aircraft ever been attacked by missles? The only example that comes to mind is when an Aegis destroyer in the Persian gulf accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet a few years ago. I may just not know of other examples, can anyone offer any?
Is this a reasonable response to a real threat, or just another indulgence in paranoid fantasy? That seems to be becoming the new national passtime.
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There have been cases (in Europe, if I remember correctly) of terrorists being caught with shoulder-mounted missiles, with plans to shoot down civilian airlines.
No time right now to look up a link, but if I get a chance later, I'll see what I can find.
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thanks for the words of wisdom and encouragement. NOT!! Some people may have already known about this, but for that haven't you have given them the idea.
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missile system
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