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From: stoffel@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (Stoffel)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: >Patriots
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.015647.3536@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:56:47 GMT
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From: stoffel@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (Stoffel)

In article <1991Feb5.042837.5856@cbnews.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>
>They say that a batter of 8 Patriot launchers, equipped with 32
>missles, and the adjunct radar, command and control center, comm
>gear, and generator costs $123 million.  Yikes!

Yikes is right. Especially if this is the cost of only one "Firing Unit"
which is suggested by the following;

Per INSIDE THE PENTAGON's special DESERT STORM REPORT dtd. 1/22/91,
each Patriot battery has 5 Firing Units; each firing unit has a radar
set, engagement control station, power station, antennae mast group,
and 8 remotely located launchers; each launcher carries 4 missles. This
would indicate that each battery has 160 "birds" ready to fly. Can anyone
verify this info.? If this is accurate, it would seem to indicate that
one would not have to be unduely concerned about conserving missles
during an aircraft or Scud attack. (At least in this conflict)

Bill