Posted on 06/15/2005 4:53:00 PM PDT by SandRat
Technology developed in Tucson could soon protect airliners from being attacked by missile-wielding terrorists.
Raytheon Co. on Tuesday unveiled a new, ground-based airport protection system that uses high-power microwave beams to disable shoulder-fired missiles.
The Vigilant Eagle system - developed by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems - is an affordable alternative to aircraft-based missile protection systems, a senior company official said at the Paris Air Show.
The Vigilant Eagle technology "defeats the most important classes of man-portable missiles in seconds without any alteration to or involvement by the aircraft using the airport," Mike --
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yea but does it burn the popcorn?
Israel will buy it. American companies won't, because they're cheap.
Cheap? Broke, maybe, but not cheap.
LOL
hmmmm.... didn't say.
If they're broke, then they should go out of business and find another job like everyone else has to do.
But they're in bed with the government, which will bail them out and pay settlements over the loss of dead passengers and crew using our tax dollars.
Israel will buy it.
Sell it to the Chinese.
Ask America for more money.
"ground-based airport protection system that uses high-power microwave beams"
I hope this works...But high power microwave RF is not something I want to be around.
Sure, we are all surounded by RF already, but typically very low power.
Let's be fair, the American taxpayer will buy it, because it's from a defense contractor and unproven, and because we can't make the airlines pay for their own %@#$!$%@#! security like every other business. That would be silly! It's not like we have some kind of free-market capitalism in the airline business, we make sure that all our airlines are subsidized so Congressmen get reelected!
However, in all fairness--I'm sure it's expensive, too.
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