• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    About 9% intercept ratio during Desert Storm, which was 30 years ago, but both the Patriot and the Al Hussain missiles were pretty much brand new.

    Regarding being brand new, what I mean is that the Patriot existed for an anti-aircraft role, but its anti-ballistic-missile capability wasn’t supposed to have been done by that point.

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      4 months ago

      It was pretty new though, it was in use for some 5 years when the Gulf War started.