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en het gaat zo nog wel even verder op de link hierboven...Israeli tech uses lasers to protect civilian aircraft
10/06/2011 18:35
"C-Music" is scheduled to be installed on all the country's airliners; foreign airlines hesitant to purchase due to lack of clear threat, cost.
Reports of 20,000 missing shoulder fired anti-aircraft rockets in Libya have sent shivers down the spines of many airline security officials, who fear they may find their way into the hands of terrorists.
US Senator Barbara Boxer has already called for hundreds of American jetliners to be outfitted with protection from such threats.
No such commercially available protection system exists, yet.
But an Israeli company has developed the world’s only civilian system that can be mounted on a passenger liner, which detects incoming missiles and -- without shooting them down -- deflects them with laser technology.
Two years ago, the Israeli government awarded a $79 million contract to El-Op, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems one of the world’s top 50 defense contractors, to develop the missile defense system for commercial passenger liners operating by the Israeli airlines El Al, Arkia and Israir as part of a “Sky Shield” air transport defense plan.
The impetus for developing a missile defense system for commercial airliners came following the attempt by al-Qaida to shoot down an Israeli passenger plane in Mombasa, Kenya in 2002.
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