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===Onboard missile defense systems=== Certain El Al planes have been fitted with counter-measures against [[Surface-to-air missile|anti-aircraft missile]]s since the early 2000s, with the initial system known as [[Flight Guard]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Vause|first=John|title=Missile defense for El Al fleet|publisher=[[CNN]] |date= 24 May 2004|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/24/air.defense/|access-date=2007-11-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Dan |title=El Al Fits Fleet with Anti-Missile System |agency=Reuters |date=February 16, 2006 |url=http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1540304&C=airwar |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728104731/http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1540304&C=airwar |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 28, 2012 |access-date=2007-11-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iai.co.il/Default.aspx?docID=25873&FolderID=28973&lang=en&PageNum=3|title=IAI/Elta's "Flight Guard" Commercial Aircraft Protection System Funded|date=2003-09-08|publisher=[[Israeli Aerospace Industries]]}}</ref><ref name="antimissiles">{{cite news | url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=683390&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5 | title=El Al Airlines installs anti-missile systems on passenger aircraft| access-date=2007-05-07 | newspaper=Haaretz|quote=El Al, Israel's national carrier and largest airline|date=2006-02-15}}</ref> In 2014, El Al began to fit some of its planes that fly on more sensitive routes with an updated [[missile approach warning system]] (MAWS) that employs an infrared missile-tracking camera, an "infrared (IR), ultra-violet (UV), or radar missile-approach warning sensor to detect a missile launch in the very early stages of an attack" and a laser system to act as a counter-measure.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ferran|first=Lee|date=July 23, 2014|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/israeli-airline-missile-defenses-israel-us-carriers-wont/story?id=24684650|title=Israeli Airline With Missile Defenses Goes to Israel When US Carriers Won't|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]}}</ref> In November 2014, under the Israeli government's SkyShield programme, [[Elbit]]'s Commercial Multi-Spectral Infrared Countermeasures (C-MUSIC) system was adopted by El Al.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jennings |first=Gareth |date=7 November 2014 |title=Israel adopts C-MUSIC missile protection system for national airliners |url=http://www.janes.com/article/45493/israel-adopts-c-music-missile-protection-system-for-national-airliners |work=IHS Jane's Defence Weekly |location=London}}</ref>
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