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From: cognos!geovision!pt@dciem (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: CNN & battelfield communications
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.041349.5823@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 04:13:49 GMT
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From: cognos!geovision!pt@dciem (Paul Tomblin)

garyb@hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Gary Barton) writes:

>On a side note, after seeing the video of what was apparently a
>Patriot missle going after and stopping an incoming SCUD, I began to
>wonder if this was lucky shot, or if the system could really be
>effective against ballistic missles.  SCUDs may not be the world
>fastest missiles, but this apparent success is still amazing to me.

The thing that boggled my mind was how confident the local commander was
in it.  If I was relying on an unproven weapon system to defend one of the 
most important air bases we had, I would have salvo'd off 5 or 6 of them,
and scrambled every plane I had to get them out of the way.  Instead, we
see no unusual aircraft activity beforehand, and only one Patriot fired, and
what appears to be normal ops happening at the airbase during and after.

Talk about confidence.  Way to go, Patriot.
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