In an interesting announcement today El Al the Israeli State Airline announced that it would equip all of its jets with new state of the art anti-missile counter measures. This is an upgrade to the current Flight Guard system that is flying today. The main threat comes from hand held portable missiles (manpads). These missiles include the SA-7 and SA-14 and older Stingers and the new generation SA-18. In 2002 Al Qaida-linked terrorists launched two SA-7 manpads against an Israeli charter flying out of Kenya.
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