Plan to defend helos from missiles gets $28M in '04 supplemental

A plan to outfit U.S. Army helicopters in Afghanistan and Iraq with the best possible electronic countermeasures to deflect heat-seeking missiles has been completed and is funded at $28 million, an Army spokesman said Feb. 2. The plan, sparked in November by a memo from acting Army Secretary R.L...

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