They're going to starting testing an anti-missile system on U.S. passenger jets:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/01/04/missile.tests/index.html
Aviation Week says it's going to cost about $11,000,000,000 to protect all US aircraft (yes, that's 11 billion but it's more obvious how staggering an amount of money that is when you type out the zeros). The cost would go to 40 billion over the next 20 years.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw091806p3.xml
Because, you know, there are so many U.S. domestic passenger planes being shot down by shoulder fired missiles.
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