Matt Molnar
2008-06-13, 12:57 AM
Wired:
Pentagon Wants Kill Switch for Planes (http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/the-pentagons-n.html)
By Noah Shachtman
June 11, 2008 | 3:40:00 PM
The Pentagon's non-lethal weapons division is looking for technologies that could "disable" aircraft, before they can take off from a runway -- or block the planes from flying over a given city of stretch of land.
In a request for proposals, issued earlier this week, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate announced that it would like arms-makers to come up with a way to "safely divert an aircraft in the air or stop and/or disable an aircraft on the ground." And no, shooting the thing with a missile doesn't count. The Directorate wants "reversible effects which allow the targeted aircraft to be quickly returned to an operational condition with minimal time to repair." [Full Article (http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/the-pentagons-n.html)]
Pentagon Wants Kill Switch for Planes (http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/the-pentagons-n.html)
By Noah Shachtman
June 11, 2008 | 3:40:00 PM
The Pentagon's non-lethal weapons division is looking for technologies that could "disable" aircraft, before they can take off from a runway -- or block the planes from flying over a given city of stretch of land.
In a request for proposals, issued earlier this week, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate announced that it would like arms-makers to come up with a way to "safely divert an aircraft in the air or stop and/or disable an aircraft on the ground." And no, shooting the thing with a missile doesn't count. The Directorate wants "reversible effects which allow the targeted aircraft to be quickly returned to an operational condition with minimal time to repair." [Full Article (http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/the-pentagons-n.html)]