USAF, NASA Eyes Next Steps in Airliner Protection
Credit: USAF SSGT. MATHEW HANNEN
The U.S. will start firing man-portable surface-to-air missiles at engines as part of a growing Air Force and NASA initiative to identify vulnerabilities of large commercial aircraft and ways to address them. The agencies are collaborating as they try to grapple with the perceived threat increase to...
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