Re: Defending airliners

From: J M Kemp (news_at_the-kemps.org)
Date: 10/25/04 

To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:17:17 +0100

In article <41787e24$1@clear.net.nz>, Nicholas Smid
<smid2n@clear.net.nz> writes
>"Juergen Nieveler" <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> wrote in message
>news:Xns955EE1563E268juergennieveler@nieveler.org...

>> Are there any other concepts for airliner protection out there,
>> preferably some that will work not only against Redeye/SA7 but also
>> against Stinger and Blowpipe?
>>
>An IR blinding laser should work pretty well on Stinger, and 0any of the
>other IR guided missiles, But Blowpipe, Javalin and RBS-70's probably won't
>notice it, they are command to line of sight, manule for the Blowpipe,
>SACLOS for the Javalin and laser beam riding for the RBS-70. The plus side
>of all three are they are not nearly as common as IR missiles, and from
>comments require a good deal more user skill.

Well you can pick up a Blowpipe/Javelin and hit an airliner with the
first shot without more than a couple of goes on a trainer. In fact if
you are stood in the right place you might even manage it without even
any attempts on the trainer.

Hitting crossing fast-movers taking evasive action is a whole other
ballgame, but airliners are big, slow and fly in straight lines. Back in
the early 1990s I spent some time practising on some with a Javelin
launcher when training with a TA AD Battery. Not at all difficult. 

-- 
Jas
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