Israeli company Elbit Systems produces C-Music with Defense Ministry; system fires laser beams to throw off incoming surface-to-air missiles.
The Defense Ministry and Elbit Systems announced a successful completion of a trial program to test a missile defense system for commercial airlines.
The C-Music system is designed to protect passenger aircraft from the threat of shoulder-launched missiles.
After detecting incoming missiles with an infrared sensor, it fires a laser that disrupts the missile's navigation system and throws it off course, away from its intended target.
C-Music was chosen by the Transportation Ministry to protect Israeli airliners.
"The experiments, carried out in southern Israel, were some of the most complex and sophisticated ever carried out in Israel," the Defense Ministry said. "They simulated a range of threats that the C-Music system will have to deal with," it added.
"C-Music is considered the most advanced system of its kind in the world, and will provide ultimate defense to planes," the ministry continued. "It combined advanced detection and disruption technologies, and meets the stringent requirements of commercial flight."
The Arabs made us develop this.
On behalf of Israel, I'd like to thank you all.