[TXnMA]

Piezoelectric ceramics could be used in the igniter/triggering mechanism for a shoulder-fired missile -- but I have no info that such an actual application exists.

Titanate-zirconates used as piezolectric sensors/generators ase pure ceramics (oxides -- as indicated by the '-ate' suffix). They most certainly are not ceramic metal composites.

Don't know how this impacts your theory -- unless you were were trying to make the logic leap that the presence of ceramic/metal composites indicates the presence of a piezoelectrically fired or fuzed missile. In that case, your theory falls apart. Ceramic/metal composites and piezoelectric ceramics are totally different animals.

[JohnFiorentino]

I indicate in the article these are EXCERPTS. There will be a more forthcoming. I assure you, I have made no "leaps in logic." Why not wait for the full story?

[TXnMA]

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[JohnFiorentino]

BTW Where do you see the term "ceramic-metal" composites in my article?

[Oberon]

Don't know how this impacts your theory -- unless you were were trying to make the logic leap that the presence of ceramic/metal composites indicates the presence of a piezoelectrically fired or fuzed missile. In that case, your theory falls apart. Ceramic/metal composites and piezoelectric ceramics are totally different animals.

All of which rather begs the question... if they weren't part of the aircraft, how did they get there?