Text 20213, 49 rader
Skriven 2008-08-27 11:53:04 av Lee Lofaso (3:800/432.0)
  Kommentar till text 20182 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
Ärende: Russia attacking Poland
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Hello Roy,

>RW>Patriots will knock out a missle, whether it's carrying
>RW>a nuke or not.

>LL>With a lot of luck, a patriot can knock out a missile (such as
>LL>a SCUD).

RW>Luck has nothing to do with it.

The patriot missile was designed in the late 1970's as an anti-aircraft
weapon.  It was later modified in the 1980's to serve as a defense
against incoming short range ballistic missiles, such as scuds.  It
had never been tested in combat until the Gulf War.  The results of
that performance was abysmal.

>LL>But not the warhead.

RW>The Patriot is designed to burst in front of an incoming missle, thus
RW>spraying in the path of that missle, shrapnel pieces that are designed to
RW>destroy the war head. The first Patiots deployed in Isreal were flawed and
RW>hit the Scuds in the fuselage, but still brought the missles down. You're
RW>reading old news reports to support your arguement. You should be reading
RW>the latest, since that is what applies to the present Patriots.

The "new" patriots are still based on the same old 1970's technology.
In the Gulf War, the success rate of patriots was "less than 10 percent
possibly zero." source - http://www.cdi.org/issues/bmd/Patriot.html

It is not likely the "new" patriots will have any more success than
the patriots of old.

>LL>Not that it will matter, given the number of nukes the Russians will
>LL>send flying.

RW>Of course you know that there will be nuke ICBMs headed in their direction
RW>too, and they have no such missle system to deploy against them. Which is
RW>a deterrent to them actually sending nukes this way.

Yeah, man.  Let's turn this planet into a giant ashtray.  That will
deter anybody and everybody.  Except cockroaches and ants.

--Lee


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