Israel’s Globes Online announces that MI-Elta’s “Flight Guard” airline protection system has been approved for use on Boeing 767 airplanes.
The Israel Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) has approved the Flight Guard commercial airliner protection system, built by Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) and Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd.’s (IAI) Elta Systems Group. Approval followed test flights of the system and certification. Flight Guard has been approved for installation of Boeing 767 passenger jets.
…ICAA director general Udi Zohar…said the fact that the military system that had been adapted for civilian use in cooperation with the ICAA was a very significant achievement, as it was the first system of its kind in the world.
IMI developed Flight Guard’s diversion flares. IMI chairman Ovadia Eli said IMI’s countermeasure dispenser system launched flares at instructions from the radar radar-based missile approach warning system (MAWS). He said the flares were suitable for civilian use, after their safety was improved and adapted to meet the threat from terrorist missile attacks on civilian airliners.
Elta developed and adapted Flight Guard to protect civilian airliners on the basis of a cabinet decision in 2002 that the system would be the first to be installed on Israeli airliners. Elta’s systems are currently installed in over 200 aircraft in 15 countries, mostly in military aircraft, but also in executive jets.
