British counter-MANPADS team training foreign governments
The British government has formed a counter-MANPADS team comprising of experts from the Royal Air Force, Scotland Yard and British Airways to teach foreign governments on how to prevent terrorists from shooting down airliners with shoulder-launched missiles.
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The focus of the team has been around Africa and the Gulf as thousands of such missiles were looted from Libya.
A major part of the training is to teach foreign security personnel on how to prevent such attacks at airports.
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