bigdaddyroy Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 This is really a different day and age from my childhood, I mean come on passenger planes with anti laser missle artillery....http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-04-anti-missile-jets_N.htm:shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Badyear Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 New here, but Israel (El Al) has had this (some type defense) for decades. Some GA aircraft have had this as an option for a few years and has been in the works for scheduled carriers since the El Al flight was shot at while flying out of Kenya?? Somewhere in N. Aftrica.Soviet versions of these missile systems have been available on the balck market for some time to people with the cash.Yep, it's a different age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterP_Nice Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 I'm sure Air Force 1 has this... didn't realize all passenger planes would get them. Huh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkurfan Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Uhhh ya.. So, the next time our planes are taken over to be used as bombs (9-11) now we won't be able to shoot them down???Ya I know.. new co-pit doors.. there are still humans on the other side of it. it will be opened once passangers start dying.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Badyear Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Can't think of any two planes on the planet better protected than "Airforce 1"747's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Snow Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Airforce One was a bad a$$ movie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amerikaner83 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 My favorite movie!I actually have a bit of knowledge on this...can't say exactly how or why (gov't stuff)...but Air Force One (it's actually only called that when Prez is on board) has had anti-missile technology since the 1960s...since before the Prez's plane was a 747...back when it was a 707. Flares (to defeat heatseeking missiles) are mounted on the wings, and chaff (to defeat readar guided missiles) dispensers are mounted on the wings and tail as well.And the plane is actually shielded well enough to withstand a nuclear weapon detonation and still be able to fly and communicate with the outside world.The type of jamming mentioned in the article - that type of anti-missile technology is being tested at Boeing - ABL (AirBorneLaser)program. It's a HUGE laser that is inside a 747 that is specially modified and has an array of mirrors...this thing is just a smaller scale, with no mirrors. Although I'd be worried about sitting above the thing...i do want kids someday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Badyear Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Seabird,You are correct on all of the above. That's the stuff people are aware of, but it's likely there's far more than that on board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amerikaner83 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 yeah...everything I posted is public knowledge...And I GUARANTEE you there are things that can't even be found in a Trekkie's wet dram on board that particular aircraft!Seabird? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Badyear Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Very tightly held stuff. I have know a number of x Airforce crew members and pilots for AF1 over the years and never said a word. Nothing.They probably have to sign a "under threat of death" thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amerikaner83 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 yeah...treason actually. 20 years in Ft Leavenworth, Kansas will make anyone shut their trap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Badyear Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 That would suck. Not like a club fed, you actually are forced to do labor like crappy suff, breaking rocks cause they want smaller rocks.Oh, and there were parts of the movie that are total crap, like the escape pod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amerikaner83 Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 yeah. But it's still my favorite movie as well! "Get off my plane" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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