Research Accelerates Into Hardening Aircraft Against Manpads Strikes
Engineers are examining how to make airliners more resilient when hit by ground fire, but luck, rather than design, is likely to spell the difference between death and survival if a missile strikes a commercial aircraft, some experts acknowledge. Perhaps the greatest asset in favor of pilots and...
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