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USA: a greater effort against the surface-to-air missiles which threaten air transport

Washington, USA - Electronic self-protection systems to be adopted for civil airplanes while Government will have to face missiles proliferation

Despite debates occurred regarding Israeli security programme (see for details AVIONEWS), the United States would be ready to perform a similar step towards the increase of protection degree for the airliners. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will attend to complete the survey related to the possible fitting of electronic self-protection systems on country’s civil airplanes, whereas Congress f...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 100718
Rome, Italy, 07/27/2004 13:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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