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[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Those have low effectiveness, and also weren't used in this case.

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[–] mrpapagiorgio ago  (edited ago)

Your source? BTW, the Steve Bannon Youtube show #103 had a LtCol say, specifically, they were SCUD type missiles. Youtube Steve Bannon The current versions of ADA can intercept mortars just like Iron Dome. Prove me wrong, give me your sources, and back up your claims. Go here....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa72-H79UB4,,,go to 38:40.

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[–] clamhurt_legbeard ago 

Throughout the [Gulf War], Patriot missiles attempted engagement of over 40 hostile ballistic missiles. The success of these engagements, and in particular how many of them were real targets, is still controversial. Postwar video analysis of presumed interceptions by MIT professor Theodore Postol suggests that no Scud was actually hit. [1][2]

On February 25, 1991, an Iraqi Scud hit the barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 soldiers from the U.S. Army's 14th Quartermaster Detachment.[3]

A government investigation revealed that the failed intercept at Dhahran had been caused by a software error in the system's handling of timestamps.[4][5] The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system's internal clock had drifted by one-third of a second. Due to the missile's speed this was equivalent to a miss distance of 600 meters.

House Government Operations Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security reported, "The Patriot missile system was not the spectacular success in the Persian Gulf War that the American public was led to believe. There is little evidence to prove that the Patriot hit more than a few Scud missiles launched by Iraq during the Gulf War, and there are some doubts about even these engagements. The public and the United States Congress were misled by definitive statements of success issued by administration and Raytheon representatives during and after the war."[6]

Patriot was deployed to Iraq a second time in 2003 (...) no longer-range ballistic missiles were fired during that conflict.


1."House Government Operations Committee – The Performance of the Patriot Missile in the Gulf" Federation of American Scientists. April 7, 1992.

2.Postol, Theodore; Lewis, George (September 8, 1992). "Postol/Lewis Review of Army's Study on Patriot Effectiveness". Federation of American Scientists.

3.Apple Jr., R. W. (February 26, 1991). "War In The Gulf: Scud Attack; Scud Missile Hits a U.S. Barracks, Killing 27". The New York Times.

4."Patriot missile defense, Software problem led to system failure at Dharhan, Saudi Arabia; GAO report IMTEC 92-26". US Government Accounting Office.

5.Skeel, Robert (July 1992). ["Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile".](http://mate.uprh.edu/~pnm/notas4061/patriot.htm j SIAM News. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 25 (4): 11.

6."Star Wars – Operations". Federation of American Scientists