US Spends $90M on Anti-Shoulder-Missile Research

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The US Government has awarded $90M of taxpayer money to two firms to research attempts to combat shoulder-fired missiles at airplanes.

Now I'm no rocket scientist, but these things seem to be capable of being set up and fired in seconds-to-minutes. What kind of system could anybody actually develop to knock a missile out before it hits a plane in such a short time period? Maybe it might be more prudent to stop selling and giving away these types of weapons to tons of other nations?



 

 

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