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Old 10-12-13, 09:38 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by Tribesman View Post
El-Al does fit countermeasures, but their government picks up most of the tab.
Problems with airports having big issues over fire hazard created by flares on approach and departure has led them to shift onto infa-red coundermeasures using lasers instead of flares.
So the govt pays 120 million for protecting the 40 aircraft, which isn't that much really
Makes sense, pretty good price tag really too, compared to the cost of cleaning up a crash site and the knock on effect to travel that a successful attack would cause.
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