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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (58800)	11/25/2002 4:14:27 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm fairly sure that simply attaching the equipment to a plane is not all that's required. Fine tuning and adaptation work fitting the ECM equipment to large airliners would surely have to be done. I'm simply saying that there are definitely a means available to defend a large airliner from a shoulder fired weapon. I bet you dollars to doughnuts that El Al's jetliners already have that kind of ECM protection. Update: El Al does in fact have the ECM defenses we've discussed: Because of the increased threat to its commercial-size aircraft due to the proliferation of sophisticated shoulder-fired missiles, the Air Force is starting to replace its standard missile-detection and countermeasures systems with LAIRCMs (large aircraft infrared countermeasures), which use laser jammers to disorient an attacking infrared-homing missile. In contrast to military aircraft, most civilian aircraft lack the countermeasures systems necessary to ward off a missile attack. There are two exceptions: Israel's El-Al Airlines, and some of the private jets owned by corporations and wealthy individuals 216.239.53.100