AA Tests Missle Defense on a 767

[Pedro]

More paycuts coming!!!!

"This defense system is expensive, we have to pay for it somehow...."

 

[EagleRJ]

The cost could be great, they said, but most likely smaller than the damage to the economy that would result from a single shoot-down.

Unless, of course, they denied the terrorists credit for the attack. It's worked before...

If I'm not mistaken, the IR dazzlers like this one being tested operate continuously when the aircraft is in a high-threat environment, and work by interfering with the guidance of any missile fired. It doesn't need to respond to a launch, like flare systems do. Airlines will only buy off on such a system if it is reletively cheap to install and maintain, and if there is no liability problem, as there is with flare systems.

And IR protection is all aircraft need to defeat a terrorist threat. All shoulder and tripod-fired missiles are IR guided. The smallest radar-guided missiles are vehicle launched, and we can assume the bad guys won't get their hands on them.

 

[FN FAL]

Unless, of course, they denied the terrorists credit for the attack. It's worked before...

And IR protection is all aircraft need to defeat a terrorist threat. All shoulder and tripod-fired missiles are IR guided. The smallest radar-guided missiles are vehicle launched, and we can assume the bad guys won't get their hands on them.

What about human guided threats?

http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_03a/leadnews/188981-1.html

One of these in the wrong hands could negate 10 billion in countermeasures.