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That's all very well, but surely you'd only turn the enormous laser on if there were a heat-seeking missile bearing down on you, in which case the laser represe
by dTal 5y ago
That's all very well, but surely you'd only turn the enormous laser on if there were a heat-seeking missile bearing down on you, in which case the laser represents the safer option even without any risk mitigations.
- addaon 5y agoYou'd only turn it on if your sensing system had a positive detection for a missile... any such system has its own failure modes, and while it's true that a sensing system with few false positives is a mitigation to hazards to the pilots, you have to consider the system as a whole. Especially if heat-seeking missiles fired at cargo planes are rare (and from what I can tell, they are), you expect the majority of activations to be false positives.