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Late last week, American Airlines began flying two of its 767’s with JETEYE, an infrared missile defense system. It’ll continue these tests on NY to LA flights into 2009 (and note, these are not “live” tests — there will be no “live firing” of the system). The whole point of this system? To respond to terrorist threats. Of particular concern — as noted by TV station WBZ — are terrorists firing shoulder launched-missile just outside airport property. When I first wrote about this system, I got a lot of comments like this:
And, American spokesman Tim Wagner told us, the airline is on record as being against installing these systems (they think intelligence-gathering is a better way to combat terrorism); but, American agreed to the testing because “we want to know how the system works.” The also want to learn what this system, because of its weight and drag, could cost them in terms of fuel usage. |
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