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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question - it is probably wise to equip commercial jets with flare and chaff countermeasures. [/quote]

It would be so expensive to do this that people wouldn't be able to afford to fly anymore. Additionally, the training on this is very difficult. There is a saturation issue with airline pilots and training, the more they have to be trained on (lots of maneuvering is necessary as the plane still has to evade the missiles, the flares only give it a fighting chance to get away as it confuses the missiles). [/quote]

It doesn't matter. There is no way a commercial jetliner is going to make effective use of flares and chaff. Not to mention that any Hamas weapon that has targeting at all will be shoulder fired.its nice to know its there but this is not iron dome on a plane. Doesn't work that way. [/quote]

It helped an El Al plane when they were attacked in Kenya in 2002. 
That's what set the course in motion to expand the system to their entire fleet.[/quote]

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