The latest in aviation: installing anti-missile lasers on cargo planes

On By Garmin Philip

Although it seems like a joke news, the truth is that FedEx has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to mount lasers on its planes to sink enemy missiles in case of attack.

It is not because Correos wants to sink MRW, nor because GLS is tired of competing with Seur. This is due to a danger other than that of competition between messengers.

FedEx, one of the world’s largest courier and parcel companies, is the owner of hundreds of cargo planes around the world, to be able to move quickly and quickly the packages that are sent between two very distant points.

Currently, they are 600 aircraft owned and none is dedicated to transporting passengers, since its business is letters, packages and other types of cargo. Hence they sail through the skies, but without us knowing about it.

For this reason, at FedEx they know better than anyone of the dangers that lurk in the air, even though it is the safest means of transport in the world. But that does not mean that anyone takes a missile without deserving it, that the tombs are full of errors.

In that sense, the folks at FedEx have done an application to the Federal Aviation Administration to allow them to mount an anti-missile laser system on its Airbus A321-200s.

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these systems are just defensive and what they do is emit an infrared laser against man-portable air defense systems – guided rocket launchers, to use more common terminology.

This defense system use precise infrared energy to disable the missile’s heat tracking system. In this way, the aircraft’s laser fries the incoming missile that is unable to track the aircraft.

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as we read in Gizmodo, yes in 2007 and 2008 FedEx participated in a US Department of Homeland Security test of the countermeasures system Guardian of Northrop Grumman. So this interest in protecting their planes from enemy attacks comes from afar.

The FAA has not yet assessed the proposal, but will study it in the coming months. It may be the beginning of a fashion that spreads to the rest of the sector.

Reference-computerhoy.com