[TigerLikesRooster]

still control somewhat by restricting where it can be used, when it can be used, or both.

"Somewhat" means they are happy with many missiles slipping into terrorists' hands.

[Paladin2]

Krazy NeoCons at it again.....

[gaijin]

How about one that loops back?

Or maybe one that DETONATES on launch command?

[ghosthost]

What could possibly go wrong??

[econjack]

This is the kind of crap you get when you let politicians set the rules of engagement and otherwise run a war.

[BenLurkin]

Just

No

[Iron Munro]

Determined to start a World War.

Defense industry profits aren’t high enough?

[soycd]

Morons. Kill islam, not people.

[KarlInOhio]

Safer missile?

Make it Nerf.

[rdcbn]

Any American government official who provides MANPADS to terrorists should be hung at dawn

We dont need to provide high tech weapons to Jihadi to beat ISIS

All we need to do is have our attack aircraft drop their bombs on ISIS on 95% of their flights instead of the current 35% of the time

[headstamp 2]

One that shoots confetti or seltzer water at low flying aircraft.

[DesertRhino]

This is probably just me, but if you can’t trust someone with an anti-aircraft missile..... forever....... maybe you shouldn’t just give them an anti-aircraft missile. I’m kind of a free thinker that way

[Bobalu]

Madness!

There has been location-aware hardware for some time. One would think the military has been using the technique.

A device knows where it is and won’t function if it is in the wrong place. i.e. You could make a pay-TV decoder device that will only work at a specific address.

Trying to use it in the wrong place can emit an rf signal that is picked up by satellite to alert whoever is interested that someone is playing with something where they shouldn’t be.

This is simple embedded systems work.

Nothing would stop you from placing such functions into military gear.... you could set it so it would NOT function in the CONUS.

It was considered by the FAA to add a restriction on larger drones to make them location-aware and unable to function near any US airport.... easy stuff to do.

[House Atreides]

BULLCRAP — The safest anti-aircraft missile for Syrian Rebels is THE ONE YOU DON’T GIVE THEM.

[fella]

As sophisticated as the terrorists have gotten with computers and cell phones, they should be able to find a work around in, ooooooh, 2 maybe 3 minutes.

[PLMerite]

How about background checks and waiting periods. I mean it works so well for guns...

[dfwgator]

Is that like Jocelyn Elders’ “Safer Bullets”

[Oztrich Boy]

Got the very thing

[AC Beach Patrol]

Forget the insanity of arming Salafist rebels with anything, which is, per se, giving material support to terrorism. But Turkey, KSA, and psychopathic Western intelligence officers should all be charged as accessories to mass murder when the first passenger jet is shot out of the sky. It will be a reoccurring theme and will end int’l air travel as we know it.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Wanted: A Safer Anti-Aircraft Missile for Syrian Rebels

How about one that blows up in their face the second they pull the trigger?

[Riley]

...moderate rebels

That would be who exactly? ISIS?