Pentagon Wants Kill Switch for Aircraft

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Pentagon Wants Kill Switch for Planes
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]

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now there's a way to throw away $10 billion if i ever saw one! :evil: :evil:

Bomb on a cell phone and save 9.3 billion..... .2 billions for putitng the detonation system in the aircraft .5 billion on wrong numbers! :twisted:

So who's to blame when this new feature malfunctions and CAUSES deaths?

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Originally Posted by Phil D.

So who's to blame when this new feature malfunctions and CAUSES deaths?

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The terrorists, of course! :roll:

According to many 9/11 truthers, old 767s already have this sort of technology, and some guy with a joystick in the Pentagon flew them into the WTC. :roll:

He was playing Microsoft Flight Sim and took control of a real plane. :roll:

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Originally Posted by GothamSpotter

According to many 9/11 truthers, old 767s already have this sort of technology, and some guy with a joystick in the Pentagon flew them into the WTC. :roll:

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and then the guy in the office next door did the same with a 757 to keep his secretary from blackmailing him over a love triangle...