I remember seeing Patriots hit Scud missiles over northern Israel in 1991.
Are Iranian missiles smarter - or Jordanian and Ukrainian operators less smart?
I remember seeing Patriots hit Scud missiles over northern Israel in 1991.
Are Iranian missiles smarter - or Jordanian and Ukrainian operators less smart?
Patriots got much better since gulf war , they were rather unsuccesfull in 1991
''Israel: Officials initially stated that the system stopped 40 to 44 percent of Scud warheads directed at Israel.
President George H.W. Bush stated in February 1991 that Patriots engaged 42 Scuds and intercepted 41 of them
Post war anallysis of actual interception showed single digit succes rates for actual warhead interceptions.
''The official U.S. military claims of an 80% to 97% success rate for the Patriot missile during the 1991 Gulf War sharply contrasted with independent post-war analyses, which estimated the true interception rate to be between 0% and 10%.''
Independent Investigations: Congressional investigations, the General Accounting Office (GAO), and studies by MIT physicist Theodore Postol concluded that the actual warhead-kill rate was likely below 10%, with some estimates pointing close to zero
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