To: the_second_moon
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?
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11/29/2002 8:58:18 AM PST by
Cold Heat
To: wirestripper
Can't tell you...
;^)
To: wirestripper
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.
To: wirestripper
Is there some kind of jamming device they could have used on the missiles?
To: wirestripper
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.
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