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Friday, May 22, 2009

Saab To Start Flight-Testing Civil Missile Detector

CAMPS in actionThe first customer for a new European-developed civil anti-missile detection system is about to start flight trials aboard one of the Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia aircraft that it is destined to enter service on this year.

By coincidence, the May 21 announcement by Saab Aviatronics came just hours after the potential threat to aircraft posed by man-portable anti-air weapons was thrust back into the limelight by the arrest in New York of alleged terrorists attempting to acquire Stinger missiles.

The Swedish company said its system, known as CAMPS, would begin trials in South Africa next month, fitted to a Brasilia aircraft operated by charter Naturelink Aviation.

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