1. Securing Passenger Aircraft From Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Vicki Bier, Uche Okpara and Natawan Teerapirak
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2. What Are MANPADS?
MANPADS are man-portable, shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles. They are usually equipped with a seeker, typically infra-red (IR) or ultra-violet (UV) or a combination of these.
Examples:
SA-7 / Grail / Strella-2
SA-14/ Gremlin / Strella-3
SA-16 / Grimlet / Igla-1
SA-18 / Grouse / Igla
(Naming convention: US name / NATO name / Russian name)
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3. SA-7 / Grail / Strella-2 (US / NATO / Russian)
Maximum effective range: 5,500 m
Maximum effective altitude: 4,500 m
Maximum speed: 580 m/s
Guidance: Passive Infra-red (IR) homing device
Deployed worldwide
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4. SA-14/ Gremlin / Strella-3 (US / NATO / Russian)
Maximum effective range: 6,000 m
Maximum effective altitude: 6,000 m
Maximum speed: 600 m/s
Guidance: Passive Infra-red (IR) homing device
Deployed worldwide
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5. SA-16 / Grimlet / Igla-1 (US / NATO / Russian)
Maximum effective range: 5,000 m
Maximum altitude: 3,500m
Maximum speed: 2 Mach (approximately 660 m/s)
Guidance: passive 2-color IR and UV homing
Improvement on SA-7
Deployed by CIS countries
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6. SA-18 / Grouse / Igla (US / NATO / Russian)
Maximum effective range: 5,200 m
Maximum effective altitude: 3,500 m
Maximum speed: 2 Mach (approximately 660 m/s)
Guidance: Passive Infra-red (IR) homing device
Deployed worldwide
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7. Why Focus On MANPADS?
There are an estimated 500,000 MANPADS in the world today, many thousands of which are thought to be on the black market and therefore accessible to terrorists and other non-state actors.
MANPADS are attractive to terrorists and insurgents because they are:
Lethal
Highly portable and concealable
Inexpensive
Relatively easy to use
Within the past two years, MANPADS have been deployed against:
An Israeli civil airliner over Kenya
A DHL cargo craft over Iraq
A US Army Chinook helicopter and
An Air Force C-7 transport plane.
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8. Key Question Given: A region I with center c
An aircraft A with a flight trajectory from c to w
A MANPAD system M positioned somewhere in region I
What is the probability that a missile fired from M would hit A? c I w M
Aerial view c w
Lateral view
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9. MANPAD Parameters
HM : maximum height of missile fired from MANPAD system
RM : maximum range of missile fired from MANPAD system
PM : maximum kill probability of a MANPAD system when a missile is
fired at a target A
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10. Attacker Location Strategies
Uniform
Near Center
Normal Across Flight Path 1 2 3
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11. Sensitivity Analysis – Base Case
RM = 5.5 km
HM = 4.5 km
CA = 10 km
γA = 2
kA = 13 km
rI = 15.6 km
rS = 0.8 km
γP = 45
kP = 6.4 km
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12. Sensitivity Analysis - Algorithm
Choose a parameter to be varied, and determine the range within which it will be varied
Choose a value for Φa (angular direction of the aircraft trajectory, c-w); e.g. Φa = π
Set all other parameters to their base-case values
Choose a probability density function fM(m), for the attacker location
Divide the range of the parameter to be varied into R points
For each of the R points:
Generate N random attacker locations in the region of interest according to the chosen probability density function fM(m)
For each of the N points:
Select Q uniformly spaced points along the path c-w
Generate a vector of distances D = (D1, … , DQ) from m to c-w
Generate a vector of conditional probabilities P = (P1, … , PQ)
Compute
Estimate the expected value by averaging values obtained for
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13. A detailed presentation is available to first responders, government agencies, other centers, and scientific organizations upon request.
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