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Early in the War & Patriot Missiles

Published on February 9, 2010 in Technology. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

For an Information Systems class I am reading a book that has a chapter on the debate about the effectiveness of the Patriot Missile system during the first Gulf War. The chapter is interesting and goes over how different groups presented the effectiveness of the system during and after the war.

After doing a little searching around Wikipedia and YouTube I found this video which shows CNN footage from early on in the Iraq War with a SCUD heading toward a major American base. The Patriot Missile having been improved since the 90’s, automatically recognizes the attack and takes out the SCUD. For something so hotly debated after it’s initial adaptation as a missile defense system, interested parties definitely responded to criticism and improved the system.

The video is about 6 minutes, but worth watching if you have any interest at all.

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    [...] to read the book that inspired the Patriot Missile post, I looked up a YouTube video for the Challenger space shuttle explosion and found the above [...]

  2. Jim posted the following on February 17, 2010 at 8:36 pm.

    Pretty interesting. Never knew about this.

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