The international shipping company FedEx has submitted to the FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) a request for equipment for some of its aircraft in an anti-missile system adapted to its cargo planes. This was published in the US communications networks.
FedEx has a good reason to install a missile system in its cargo planes. In 2003, a missile hit an Airbus A330 aircraft operated by DHL immediately after taking off from Baghdad airport. Despite the injury, the plane crew was able to land at the airport again unharmed.
“In recent years, in a number of incidents abroad, civilian aircraft have been shot down by mobile air defense systems,” the FAA document said. For those missile missiles. “
Before the request is approved, there should be 45 days in which the public can comment on the system. “The system emits infrared laser energy outside the aircraft as an anti-missile device,” the FAA document said.
The Federal Authority incidentally stated that any permit must include “measures to prevent inadvertent operation of the system on the ground, including during aircraft maintenance and ground care”, since laser accidents, according to the authority’s document, “can cause damage to the eye and skin” and therefore may cause Damage to the crew handling the aircraft on the ground.