Thomas Latt
တို႔ဆီမွာလဲ အန္တီဒီေလး ဒီဗိုက္ေတြ ဒိုမက္စတစ္ဖလိုက္ေတြမွာတပ္ေတာ့မယ္တဲ့။
Anti-missile protection urged for US jets
Two lawmakers have urged the US administration to look at measures to protect US commercial planes from missile attacks.
US
Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Steve Israel want the Department of
Homeland Security, Defense Department and Federal Aviation
Administration to consider equipping jets with anti-missile devices.
They
say a government sponsored study should consider the best technology
available to combat shoulder-fired and surface-to-air missiles.
Schumer
and Israel said anti-missile equipment would cost up to $2 million per
aircraft and includes equipment such as onboard lasers, warning systems
and flares.
"The tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17,
plus numerous missiles being fired near the Tel Aviv airport have made
one thing clear this week: we cannot let this happen to an American
passenger plane," said Schumer.
"We are once again reminded that an attack on a civilian aircraft remains a significant threat," added Israel.
Data
from the Government Accountability Office says there are up to 750,000
transportable surface-to-air missiles in existence and the State
Department believes several thousand of these are controlled by
terrorist groups.
Schumer also cited a report by Texas
Intelligence firm Stratfor which said 30 commercial aircraft have been
downed by missiles over the last 40 years, causing over 900 deaths.
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