Author Topic: It's about time! - Anti-Missile Defense (Read 1696 times)

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #30 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:08:01 PM »

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Originally posted by FrodeMk3
Yeah...wait 'till that thing zaps a 172 holding in a full pattern. That oughta be good for another FAA panic grounding of all commercial flights.

honestly. during that grounding I kinda enjoyed the peace and quiet.
I'd never before realised just how much noise pollution airliners put out till they werent there anymore.

It was actually noticable.
Though I wish it had been done for different reasons.

Chairboy · « **Reply #31 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:31:17 PM »

As long as the airliners aren't equipped with active countermeasures.

"SAN ANDREAS, CA (AP) - 12 are dead and 23 injured after an American Airlines 767 fired on a Boy Scout model rocketry event. The jet, which had taken off from San Francisco minutes before, apparently detected and responded to what it classified as multiple launch threats. This follows up last week's massacre at the Jamaica, NY KOA campgrounds when a barbecue triggered defensive missile firing from another Boeing aircraft."

Toad · « **Reply #32 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:34:41 PM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Think about it. For all the touting they make about how easy it is.
Why is it nobody has managed to actually do it and do harm yet?

Been answered.

Originally posted by Sandman
We are a nation of candy tulips afraid of shadows.

SD67 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:44:50 PM »

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Originally posted by FrodeMk3
Yeah...wait 'till that thing zaps a 172 holding in a full pattern. That oughta be good for another FAA panic grounding of all commercial flights.

Come on now, do you seriously think that commercial flights will be grounded? It's just the excuse they need to ground all GENERAL aviation. Lord knows those uppity private pilots have no business flying about in their airspace, they should buy a ticket like the rest of the sheep or keep their feet firmly on the ground!:t

john9001 · « **Reply #34 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:45:18 PM »

deleated

AKIron · « **Reply #35 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:48:28 PM »

I think they might come in handy in a few years. I'd rather have bigger seats though.

MORAY37 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 24, 2008, 07:50:26 PM »

All it does is burn out the seeker head on an IR missile... It doesn't "shoot down" missiles. If you shot a radar guided missile at a plane equipped with the system, it'd never even know you shot. Of course, all manportable missiles are currently IR only.....

Complete waste of money and time. If you're flying somewhere on a commercial airliner where you have to worry about this...then you were dumb enough to buy a ticket. It has also been shown that portable systems are poor performers (poor hit percent, very small warhead) and are most often utilized extremely badly. (poor training)

Figure out a system that can completely foil windshear first... one of the top causal occurences of aviation accidents. Improve Air traffic controller training...put breathalizers in the cockpit of civilian airliners....you know, things that are more likely to cause your plane to end up "in a bad landing".

We have turned into a nation scared of shadows.

AKIron · « **Reply #37 on:** January 24, 2008, 07:54:02 PM »

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Originally posted by MORAY37
We have turned into a nation scared of shadows.

This belongs in the Global Warming/Climate Change/Catastrophe thread(s).

Vulcan · « **Reply #38 on:** January 24, 2008, 09:20:26 PM »

Meh, sit under the approach path with an old fashioned rpg.

Wes14 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 24, 2008, 09:41:35 PM »

How many perk points do we get if we shoot it down?

FiLtH · « **Reply #40 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:16:29 PM »

What is it gonna do? Deploy flares and burn down a neighborhood?

(Ding) "Ahhh...ladies and gentlemen, if you look out the left side of the plane you'll see a lovely sunset...and an SA-7 rapidly approaching."

Nilsen · « **Reply #41 on:** January 25, 2008, 02:58:37 AM »

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Originally posted by Tarmac
Fearmongering pork project.

yup

Denholm · « **Reply #42 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:09:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Stang
You agree it's more sizzle, yet you start the thread in favor of the new system? Squeakers, lol.

Currently it's more sizzle. I'm in favor of it because the research will lead to better methods to make a system capable of deterring missiles. At the time being nothing is going on that would require the system on airliners. But in a few years Al-Qaeda will decide that it's time to wake up the world again. And when it does, it's target shouldn't be a jet loaded to the brim with Jet-A and passengers.

Nilsen · « **Reply #43 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:23:28 AM »

You cant secure everything. What is next? A billion dollar project to secure trains incase someone representing Al Quaida decides to park a truck with a bomb on the tracks?

Im sure the defence industry would love it though. Hmm...

Denholm · « **Reply #44 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:33:03 AM »

What's the ratio on train travel to aerial travel? There's your answer as to why this device is being tested.

I know you can't secure everything, but that doesn't mean we can't try.