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.

How to disable MANPADS
By DTRA photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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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