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Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners From Essay Preview: Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners From Report this essay Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles Introduction Shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), also known as MANPADS (man-portable air defense systems), developed in the late 1950s to provide military ground forces protection from enemy aircraft, are receiving a great deal of.