Missile shield won't work in bad weather

A ring of ground-to-air missile launchers that will be deployed around Lon-don to protect Olympic venues will be unable to locate aircraft in bad weather, experts said Monday.

The Ministry of Defence con-firmed that six sites, including two residential blocks of apartments, were being tested as launch pads for missile systems capable of thwarting airborne attacks.

The Starstreak and Rapier systems, which have a range of about six kilometres, would be deployed as a "last resort" to shoot down any low-flying aircraft intending a 9/11-style suicide mission at one of the Olympic venues.

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