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Homeland Security

Northrop Grumman Completes C-MANPADS Demo

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] has completed a multi-year demonstration program of its Guardian Counter-Man Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) aboard a commercial cargo plane and will now have to wait and see what comes next. Company officials hope that the U.S. civilian airline industry will order the Guardian system to install on their passenger planes to protect the aircraft against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles fired by terrorists. Northrop Grumman estimates that its system could be purchased, installed on planes, operated for a…

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