Re: MIL: Warfare basics

Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:22:17 -0800 (PST)

From: mark@unicorn.com

>>EvMick@aol.com wrote:
>>The Patriot comes to mind...as well as the Ageis systems

>Patriot worked really well for propaganda on CNN; it was only
>years later that they admitted that it didn't hit a single Scud in
>the Gulf War. Aegis I might be wrong about, I don't know how well
>that's working.

Actually this is incorrect, the military initially claimed something like a 90% plus success rate, then an MIT prof claimed a 0% rate. The revised rate was near 60%.

Brian
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