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FAA begins equipping its jets with anti-missile system
SF Gate.com ^
| October 12, 2006
| Paul J. Caffera
Posted on 10/15/2006 5:41:30 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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"The FAA move is the latest in a stepped-up effort to protect "commercial derivative" aircraft from missile attacks. Commercial derivative aircraft are essentially commercial airliners the government has modified for official use. The twin presidential Air Force One aircraft, which have missile defenses installed, are modified Boeing 747s."
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:41:31 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; cyphergirl; Wright is right!; ..
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:43:27 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
They must be contemplating some really horrendous rule changes!
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:45:19 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: KeyLargo
Well, in addition to selecting commercial flights using Boeing aircraft, now I'll be looking for aircraft equipped with "missile defenses." And when will these be installed on airlines planes for the "common folk?"
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:48:31 PM PDT
by
toddst
To: KeyLargo
Pretty..........
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:48:36 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
To: KeyLargo
...and all the while our right to keep and bear arms is ignored and criminalized. We've got our democracy, but, as Franklin alluded, can we keep it?
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:48:43 PM PDT
by
gorush
(Exterminate the Moops!)
To: KeyLargo
Oh sure, the FAA boys are 'protecting' their important little backsides using OUR tax dollars. Now that's what I call a good use of tax money. What self respecting terrorist is going to target the FAA anyway?
(sarcasm alert)
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:51:20 PM PDT
by
whipitgood
(Public schools have replaced a biblical moral code with pragmatism. Civilization, beware!)
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:53:41 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Paleo Conservative
To: toddst
I believe these are modified LAIRCM systems. A full up LAIRCM runs around $5 million a plane, so I doubt they will be widespread.
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:57:43 PM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
To: KeyLargo
I wonder if al-Qaeda and the south American gangs have maybe smuggled MANPADS in to the US so they can shoot down commercial airliners. Nah! Not with the border security we have. /sarcasm off
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posted on
10/15/2006 5:58:36 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Sliding butt stock, carry handle, gas operated. Named after a horse. What am I?)
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To: Mr Rogers
I believe they are deploying Counter MANPADS (the civilian version of the Guardian system).
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:03:36 PM PDT
by
Just_an_average_Joe
(Frank Costanza: I'm like the Phoenix, rising from Arizona.)
To: Just_an_average_Joe
Sounds right. It should be a lot cheaper, but still too much for installing on all commercial aircraft unloess the threat becomes a lot greater.
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10/15/2006 6:05:23 PM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
To: gorush
and all the while our right to keep and bear arms is ignored and criminalized. We've got our democracy, but, as Franklin alluded, can we keep it? The odds of success are roughly proportional to the amount of active, sacrificial effort we make to protect it; roughly inversely proportional to the amount of time and effort we give to predicting its demise.
To: Made in USA
that is a fearsome sight indeed.
To: Made in USA
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:16:24 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: the invisib1e hand; toddst; KeyLargo; george76
that is a fearsome sight indeed.Yeah. Imagine what it'll look like when the pyros go off accidentally on a live tarmac with fuel trucks and pax on board.
Fearsome sight indeed.
But it's the FAA. What could go wrong?
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:40:42 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: KeyLargo
Not flares,
DIRCMFlares tend to ignite things on the ground.
To: Made in USA
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10/15/2006 6:41:01 PM PDT
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KeyLargo
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