With the growing threat of International Terrorism it makes sense to keep the movers and shakers and key-executives safe. Well for the private jet owner or fractional jet company which wants to gain respect or win friends and influence people, perhaps you should get an anti-surface-air-missile device to save your butt and/or your expensive friends from some lunatic fringe Islamic Radical fundamentalist International Terrorist? As a very expensive, but quite worthy option; Business Jets can now come with a surface to air missile warning system. And a device to take out an incoming missile, just like what the US military has for its close air-support aircraft and cargo planes which have to go into hostile areas of known International Terrorists, Insurgents or enemy territories. How much does this cool device cost? Well it will set you back a bit. In fact you can probably buy a good used private jet for about the same price. It costs about 3.5 million and you will not see it on just any biz jet, but Gulfstream offers the AN/ALQ-204 Matador by Sanders and is mounted in the tail cone. So who can afford it? A Saudi Prince, head of state, military, corporate multi-national conglomerate CEO or of course on the dark side, an arms dealer or big time a drug dealer. The system fits in the tail cone. Make sure it is turned off when you wash it though, as the operations manual states clearly. Consider all this in 2006. |
