[Cold Heat]

He was just taking off. He would have had no opportunity to evade except to pop flares and there was no report of that.

I wonder what the heck they are talking about?

[null and void]

Can't tell you...
;^)

[freepersup]

Today, on the recurring post, Ya gotta see this: Operation Enduring Freedom, are pictures of the launchers. Are these grenade launchers, or heat seeking missile launchers ? I'm not so sure any defense mechanism was responsible for the misses. Sounds more like psyops.

[Terriergal]

Is there some kind of jamming device they could have used on the missiles?

[John Jorsett]

He was just taking off. He would have had no opportunity to evade except to pop flares and there was no report of that. I wonder what the heck they are talking about?

Take a look here. (This is a google cache -- the original seems to be gone). Down toward the bottom:

But we can protect commercial jets. There's a system that affixes six sensors on the aircraft's wings and fuselage to detect and track the missile, fires a wide-beam laser to blind it, managed by a computer — all of that in much less time than it takes to describe it.

It also says that it's stuck in procurement in the U.S., but I wouldn't put it past the Israelis to have developed and deployed something similar. They're quite good at high tech stuff.