Laser air defense eyed for commercial aircraft
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If a terrorist fires a surface-to-air missile at a civilian airliner, should the plane be able to shoot back?
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Counterterrorism officials are beefing up security at Los Angeles International Airport to protect jetliners from terrorists armed with shoulder-launched missiles.
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The FBI is investigating seven incidents of lasers apparently being directed at planes that were preparing to land at airports around the United States over the last six days, a federal official said Thursday.
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MEDFORD, Ore. - The FBI is investigating a report by a SkyWest crew, who say they saw two laser-like rays of light in the cockpit of their plane as they attempted to land at the Medford airport Christmas night.
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Burn baby burn Rayguns are, um, on fire lately, with the US Army dishing out early contracts in its monster truck laser cannon race, Boeing planning a rather unimpressive blaster-equipped Humvee and the famous American nuke-toasting jumbo jet continuing to make headlines. Now the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon war-nerd bureau which loves nothing better than a long shot, has joined in.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- At least a dozen cases of lasers being beamed into aircraft cockpits since Christmas are being investigated by the FBI. The lasers can temporarily blind pilots.
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The FBI is investigating an incident in which lasers were apparently aimed at a pilot preparing to land at Teterboro Airport. The pilot, who has not been identified, reported
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Lasers mark dates on boxes of butter. They cut gems and engrave vehicle identification numbers into cars. They are the key components in compact disc and DVD players. Like so much in the high-tech world, they keep getting cheaper and more powerful. And with at least eight reports in recent weeks of lasers pointed at aircraft cockpits as they approached for landing, their ubiquity could pose a problem for aviation.
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Lasers may be the weapon of choice for sci-fi movie heroes when the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. But back here on Planet Earth, lasers are at the center of a movie battle of another kind: the one
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Technology to guard airplanes against terrorist missiles is too expensive for commercial airlines and developers should work to come up with something more suitable "as rapidly as possible," a new report says.
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FBI agents are probing reports that a US commercial jet was tracked by a laser beam on approach to an airport in Cleveland, Ohio, this week.
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After a rash of incidents in  which lasers flashed aircraft 31 times in the last 10 days,  Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta on Wednesday promised a  crackdown to prevent "careless people, making stupid choices"  from putting fliers at risk.
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A Boeing Co.-led team has successfully fired for the first time a powerful laser meant to fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a US ballistic missile defense shield, officials said on Friday.
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Officials with airline pilots unions say the government should be doing more to alert them to incidents involving lasers and to provide guidance about how best to protect themselves against beams that can blind.
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Boeing Co  would be a logical  choice to lead the interceptor part of a planned U.S. defense  missile shield in eastern Europe, the head of the Pentagon's  Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday.
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Unmanned aircraft with hydrogen engine does well in preliminary tests.
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Federal authorities Tuesday used the Patriot Act to charge a man with pointing a laser beam at an airplane overhead and temporarily blinding the pilot and co-pilot.