[MilCom] Northrop Grumman begins testing of commercial aircraft anti-missile system

[Ken]

So far it seems that within the United States, the efforts of DHS, military 
investigators/counter intelligence (e.g. AFOSI), local law enforcement, and 
those "covert" airport suveillance/response teams, have ensured that 
shoulder fired missiles are not used in the US.

Surely, a large part of terrorism's success is to force the use of 
additional resources (money, personnel, and defensive systems) to "just in 
case" scenerios.

Personally, when flying on any commercial airline, it would be more 
comforting to known that a missile defense system was in place on the 
aircraft "JUST IN CASE".

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blaine Brooks" <blaine.brooks at verizon.net>
To: "DFWSCAN" <dfwscan at yahoogroups.com>; "MILCOM" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:48 AM
Subject: [MilCom] Northrop Grumman begins testing of commercial aircraft 
anti-missile system


> Very interesting article/press release on military technology
> being put in commercial aircraft. Fedex will be the participant
> with nine of its MD-10's.
>
> http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.mhtml?d=111846
>
> Paranoia? Overkill? Waste of taxpayer money?
>
> Thoughts?