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From: wolit@mhuxd.att.com (Jan I Wolitzky)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Scuds vs Patriots
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Date: 25 Jan 91 03:31:40 GMT
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From: wolit@mhuxd.att.com (Jan I Wolitzky)
I've heard figures of around $700K for the price of a single Patriot
missile.  Does anyone know how much Saddam paid for the 50's-era
Scuds?  I would imagine they were fairly cheap.  Given that he's
been destroying two of the Patriots with each of his Scuds, his
tactic might be very cost-effective.  Not to mention that he's
using missiles that have been widely acknowledged to have little
other military utility to disarm our primary ground-based
air-defense capability.  If Iraqi planes start showing up over
U.S. forces later in the war, we might regret the great "success"
that the Patriots have had against missiles that seem capable of
little damage to military targets.

-- 
Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 908 582-2998
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