Counter-Manpads Asset Seen Able To Protect Each Passenger For $1 -- Price Of Pop And Peanuts Northrop Hopes Airlines Install Guardian System On Planes For Far Less Than $4 Billion Total Outlay LINTHICUM, Md. -- Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] wrapped up a multi-year demonstration program in which it installed a laser system on airliners to defeat shoulder-mounted man-portable weapons that terrorists might fire at the civilian planes. The end of the Northrop portion of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-funded…
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