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Microwave Technology to be Adapted for Airline Defense

June 15, 2005 :: AP :: News

Raytheon has developed a high-powered microwave beam to defend airliners against shoulder-launched missiles, reports the Associated Press. The system, known as “Vigilant Eagle,” uses infrared sensors to create a protective dome around an airport. In the event of a surface-to-air missile launch, a microwave gun (roughly the size of a billboard) blasts the missile with a high-energy beam, confusing its guidance system and knocking it off track. Raytheon estimates that if the U.S. deployed “Vigilant Eagle” at the 30 busiest domestic airports (at a cost of $25 million per airport), it would protect 70 percent of inbound and outbound flights.
        Although the sort of missile defense involved here (anti-anti-aircraft missiles) is of a very different sort than that concerning ballistic missiles, the development of high energy technology could conceivably be transferable. (Article)

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