Homeland Security : Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles.

Examines options for protecting commercial airliners from terrorist attacks using shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). Discusses various types of SAMs, shoulder fired SAM proliferation, non-state groups with shoulder-fired SAMs, recent U.S. military and civilian encounters with SAMs, optio...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2006.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Military weapons. Terrorism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Examines options for protecting commercial airliners from terrorist attacks using shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). Discusses various types of SAMs, shoulder fired SAM proliferation, non-state groups with shoulder-fired SAMs, recent U.S. military and civilian encounters with SAMs, options for defeating SAM threat, Congressional action, and Administration plans and programs.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.