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Flight Guard

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Flight Guard is an Elta Systems Ltd's brand name for a family of airborne systems for protecting civilian aircraft against man-portable air-defense systems. [1]

25 relations: AN/ALQ-144, Arkia, BBC News, Boeing 757, Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System, Civil Aviation Authority of Israel, CNN, Common Infrared Countermeasures program, Decoy, Directional Infrared Counter Measures, Doppler radar, El Al, Elta Systems, Federal Aviation Administration, Flare (countermeasure), Infrared countermeasure, Infrared homing, Israir Airlines, List of airliner shootdown incidents, Man-portable air-defense system, Missile approach warning system, Mombasa, Northrop Grumman Guardian, Ynetnews, 2002 Mombasa attacks.

AN/ALQ-144

The AN/ALQ-144, AN/ALQ-147, and AN/ALQ-157 are US infra-red guided missile countermeasure devices (IRCM).

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Arkia

Arkia, legally incorporated as Arkia Israeli Airlines Ltd (ארקיע, I will soar, خطوط أركيا), is an Israeli airline.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Boeing 757

The Boeing 757 is a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner that was designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System

Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System or CAMPS is an infrared countermeasure against infrared-homed anti-aircraft missiles, specifically designed to defend civilian aircraft flying under against MANPADS.

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Civil Aviation Authority of Israel

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA or CAAI, Rashut HaTe'ufa HaEzraḥit) is the national aviation authority of Israel.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Common Infrared Countermeasures program

CIRCM, the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, is a United States Army initiative intended to develop a lightweight, low-cost and modular laser-based infrared protection system for U.S. helicopters and light fixed-wing aircraft.

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Decoy

A decoy is usually a person, device, or event meant as a distraction, to hide what an individual or a group might be looking for.

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Directional Infrared Counter Measures

Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) is a system produced by Leonardo, Elbit Systems, Northrop Grumman, ITT Corporation, and BAE Systems to protect aircraft from infrared homing ("heat seeking") man-portable missiles.

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Doppler radar

A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance.

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El Al

El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL), trading as El Al (אל על, "To the Skies" or "Skywards", إل-عال), is the flag carrier of Israel.

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Elta Systems

ELTA Systems Ltd is an Israeli provider of defense products and services specializing in radar, C4ISTAR, RF, SIGINT and EW products.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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Flare (countermeasure)

A flare or decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by a plane or helicopter to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile.

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Infrared countermeasure

An infrared countermeasure (IRCM) is a device designed to protect aircraft from infrared homing ("heat seeking") missiles by confusing the missiles' infrared guidance system so that they miss their target (electronic countermeasure).

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Infrared homing

Infrared homing is a passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it.

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Israir Airlines

Israir Airlines Ltd. (ישראייר), usually referred to as Israir, is an Israeli airline headquartered in Tel Aviv.

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List of airliner shootdown incidents

In the history of commercial aviation, there have been many airliner shootdown incidents which have been caused intentionally or by accident.

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Man-portable air-defense system

Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) are shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles (SLSAMs).

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Missile approach warning system

A missile approach warning system (MAW) is part of the avionics package on some military aircraft.

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.

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Northrop Grumman Guardian

The Northrop Grumman Guardian is a passive anti-missile countermeasure system designed specifically to protect commercial airliners from shoulder-launched missiles (commonly known as MANPADS), using directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) technology.

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Ynetnews

Ynetnews is the online English-language Israeli news website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s most-read newspaper, and the Hebrew news portal, Ynet.

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2002 Mombasa attacks

The 2002 Mombasa attacks were terrorist attacks on an Israeli-owned hotel and a plane belonging to an Israeli airline, Arkia Airlines, in Mombasa, Kenya, on 28 November 2002.

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Redirects here:

EL/M 2160, EL/M-2160, Flight guard, Flightguard.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Guard

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