Quote:
Originally posted by Spanky
Are you one of those people that think the success of the patriot missiles in shooting down the SCUDs in Israel in the first Gulf War were actually staged?
|
(a) The Patriot missile system isn't suitable for defense against ICBMs (as you know).
(b) IIRC, the Patriots enjoyed some limited success in that role (GW I), but a Pentagon reevaluation showed that the initial reports of their success were exaggerated.
Not that they were "staged" -- but that (perhaps for reasons of public morale in Israel) the Patriots got credit for every miss or malfunction in those antiquated and dilapidated SCUDs, so the the number of missile kills were inflated a good bit.
S_A_M
