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New York, This is the
tragic fate of the passengers on a Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that fell a
few days ago and suspected missile strike. It turns out that there is an effort
to create a trading system for the protection of aircraft against missile attacks;
it's just that the price is still very expensive.
Each passenger aircraft
have become familiar with safety procedures: take off your shoes, put the
laptop in a plastic bin, remove all metal objects in the bag and put the liquid
into separate plastic bags, and to walk through the metal detector.
However, precautions,
designed to protect passengers from the possibility of a bomb or a gun does not
move to prevent the arrival of missiles that can blow up a jet plane taking
off.
Malaysia Airlines flight
MH17 who was shot last week focused on the protection of aircraft against
possible missile attacks, which have devastating dozen commercial aircraft in
aviation history.
a system created by Israel, "Sky Shield" is an answer. Part
that authorities have succeeded in protecting El Al Boeing 737 in a test
series.
Sky Shield 'system is
based on laser technology that deflect missiles fired antiaircraft and the
passage of the railway missiles, has been selected by the Israeli Ministry of
Transportation to protect Israeli planes, "the ministry statement Israeli
Defense after a series of tests earlier this year.
"The test series
includes different types of threats that must be met by the system" Sky
Shield "while protecting passenger aircraft.”
United States Air Force
(USAF) currently uses a technology called infrared systems against
large-measures to protect aircraft jumbo cargo planes and fuel.
Air Force one, a
modified Boeing 747, believed to have been equipped with the kind of deterrent
missile. However, the installation of similar equipment on a scheduled flight
time is still far off.
"It's not a magic
wand and will not solve the problem," warned Jim Walsh, program director
for Security Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in
Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA). But, he said, the protection of ordinary aircraft
is the idea of "just explored."
Walsh said it is
difficult to protect civilian aircraft from the launcher rocket powerful
military, as Buk M-1 is believed to be a missile targeting MH17.
He said the technology
could be used to protect the missiles fired from monitoring a shoulder
launcher, which is expected to become a threat increasingly common.
In 2002, terrorists in
Mombasa, Kenya, suspected of trying to shoot missiles propelled shoulder
Israeli aircraft during takeoff from the international airport, he fired, but
missed.
There are a number of
reports that the militants had been stripped and storage of MANPADS
shoulder-propelled missiles in Syria and Iraq.
But Walsh argues that the
airline industry in the United States would not be in a hurry to make a backup
because most Americans are not flying through war zones.
"It costs about $ 1
million per unit," he said. "We are talking about $ 4 billion and
frankly American flights - Commercial, Delta, USAir, and United - not landing
in hazardous locations.
So I think you see is
not necessarily a commercial aircraft that would absorb the cost of it. When
looking at what is happening, I assume to be the issue, is a flight that is
still in the area, which a few days earlier that there was an attack against a
military plane to 20,000 feet, but they still use the air space, why? Because
it ... save $ 1,500 in fuel costs. "
Northrop Grumman has
developed the missile avoidance system, which is known as the
"Guardian", which has been installed in a number of planes
MD-11.
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