"sid" wrote in message
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Simply focusing on the susceptibility side of
military
aircraft was not sufficient, and many pilots owe their safe return
from
hostile environments to vulnerability reduction efforts.

There is controlling susceptability (via measures such as stealth and IRCM),
and then there is controlling susceptability (by keeping the birds out of
the main threat envelope)....

Since no IRCM
system is likely to prove 100 percent effective against all current
and
emerging IR missile threats, it may be wise to direct additional
attention
towards reducing civil aircraft vulnerability.

....and this is an example of that. IRCM? If the E-10 and ACS are operating
where they are supposed to be operating, they won't even need that, except
to hamper any would-be martyr lurking off the end of the runway hoping for
an approach or departure shot.

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Sorry, but the plain ol' fact is that commercial airframes are quite
sufficient for the roles of such aircraft as the E-10, ACS, C-40, C-21,
C/RC-12, ARL-M, etc.

Brooks