[Reuters] Dan Williams - Israel will replace the flare-firing systems it has installed on some of its passenger planes to defend against missile attacks with non-pyrotechnic lasers deemed safer abroad, officials said on Wednesday. The current Flight Guard system detects heat-seeking missiles and diverts them with flares. The new Israeli system, developed by El-Op, will use a laser to "blind" the heat-seekers in shoulder-fired missiles. A security source said the El-Op system's broad-array laser can "take on 1,000 threats at once."
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