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From: stevenp@decwrl.pa.dec.com (Steven Philipson)
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Subject: Re: Patriots - dangerous to use?
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Date: 9 Apr 91 04:02:47 GMT
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From: stevenp@decwrl.pa.dec.com (Steven Philipson)


  A short follow-up to my own post...

In article <1991Mar18.134804.19216@cbnews.att.com>, I wrote a response
to daniel rubin who wrote;
>>I don't see how a patriot can do that much 
>> damage since it just releases hi speed cubes to intercept the
>> incomming missle
 
The January 28 issue of Aviation Week reported on the PAC-2 warhead
for the Patriot.  The report impressed me, so I thought that I'd share
it with the net.

	The PAC-2 warhead on the Patriots breaks up into large fragments
	and makes it possible to destroy an incoming TBM without hitting
	it head-on.  A single fragment strikes with the force of a large
	American automobile running into a brick wall at 80 mph.

That's about 1.7 million foot pounds of force per fragment.  Impressive.

Steve
(the certified flying fanatic)
stevenp@decwrl.dec.com