Israel Approves ''Flight Guard' Protection System for Boeing 767 Airliners"
Report by Oren Klass: 'Flight Guard' Protection System Okayed for Some Civilian Planes" The Jerusalem Post Friday, December 30, 2005 Airline passengers are set to become a little better protect-ed, at least against shoulder-fired missiles, as the Civil Avia-tion Authority on Thursday authorized the use of the Flight Guard self-protection system for civilian flights on Boeing-767 aircraft. The sys-tem is to be included on other aircraft soon. Manufactured by Elta, a daughter company of Israel Aircraft Industries which was tendered production rights by the Israeli government, Flight Guard has been finally approved for civilian flights after a lengthy series of exhaustive tests. "The system, which was originally meant for militaiy use, has been adapted to meet civilian needs," said Israel Air-craft Industries CEO Udi Zohar. The system adapted by Elta was designed originally combat planes, helicopters, transports and VIP aircraft. This initial military version has been installed in over 150 air-craft and been on the market for 10 years. The move to adapt it for civilian use was catalyzed by a near-disaster over African skies three years ago. On November 28, 2002, ter-rorists fired two SA-7 Strela anti-aircraft missiles at an Arkia Israeli Airlines jet as it took off from Mombasa, Kenya. The missiles narrowly missed the Boeing 757, which carried 261 Israeli passengers. Immediately following the attack, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the Defense Ministry to assist the state-owned aeronautics concern in completing all phases of the system's testing, toward its eventual installation in all israeli airliners. The system's radar detects approaching heat-seeking mis-siles, automatically deploying tiny, powerful flares in all directions from the plane's rear or sides that divert the missiles away from the plane. The sys-tem gives greater than 99 per-cent probability of missile detection, and has a very low false alarm rate. The hope is that companies around the world will see the system as the definitive answer to one of the most lethal threats to arise in the post-Sep-tember 11 era -- the heat-seek-ing shoulder missile, which is easy to hide, carry and use. (Description of Source: Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post in English -- Right-of-center, English-language, independent daily) -------------------------------------- For more translations and news on terrorism, visit http://www.lauramansfield.com or visit our forum at http://www.lauramansfield.com/forum/ Strategic Translations is a service provided by Laura Mansfield through http://www.lauramansfield.com You may email Laura at [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/U6CDDD/izNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
