4/24    In the movie "Red Eye", the Russian terrorists used a sophisticated
        optical targetted SAM to shoot into a specific hotel room to
        assassinate a very important man. How much of that SAM capability
        is reality, and how much of the damage is close to reality?
        \_ The guidance system?  Definitely.  The damage?  depends--a lot
           of SAMs have proximity fuses as airplanes are pretty fragile.
           Laser- and optically-guided anything are sort of old hat. -John
        \_ This is really quite stupid, as they easily have used a SSM like
           a TOW to do the same thing.  Those have been around since the
           70's.  -EricM
        \_ This is really quite stupid, as they could easily have used a SSM
           like a TOW to do the same thing.  Those have been around since the
           70's, and carry bigger warheads to boot (designed to take out
           heavily armored targets).  -EricM