Re: MIL: Warfare basics

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Mar 25 1999 - 07:22:17 MST


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
Member, Extropy Institute
www.extropy.org



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