Israel is armed with a system of protection against MANPADS "C Music"

Israel ordered two local airlines to stop using ATR 72 and ATR 42 turboprop aircraft because these models are too small to be equipped with the missile defense that all Israeli airliners are equipped with. The ATR 72 aircraft weighs 22 tons, while its predecessor ATR 42, very similar to it, weighs 18 tons. Over the past three decades, about a thousand of these aircraft were built and most of them are still in operation.

Israel is rushing to equip aircraft with anti-missile systems. As a result of the recent fall of the Gaddafi dictatorship in Libya, several Libyan warehouses weapons were looted, and Israel believes that weapons smugglers will ship man-portable air defense systems to the Gaza Strip and sell them to HAMAS, which can use them against Israeli aircraft. Israeli military aircraft are already equipped with a missile defense system, which detects the launch of a rocket and blinds its guidance system with a laser.

To protect civilian aircraft, Israel uses a local-made "C Music" system. A typical airliner’s missile defense system consists of two components. The first is six or more UV sensors mounted on different parts of an aircraft weighing 3-4 kg each to detect approaching missiles. These sensors are connected to the 3-5 with a kilogram computer containing software for determining whether the detected object is actually a rocket and where it is directed. A computer is connected to a countermeasure system that uses a laser to entangle a rocket guidance system that is directed at the engine heat. The C-Music system weighs 50 kg.