Patriot missiles... Hero or Hoax?

It has been said so many times...

Israelis says hit percentage is 0%

also why was Kuwait hit with 2 missiles today when there were patriot batteries with troops in Kuwait?

where are the evidences of successful patriot hit?

duh man, 1 missle was a malfunctioning tomahawk, 1 missle got through and did no harm and 3-4 have been shot down, I would say it is a hero system *LOL*

most of Israeli military officials disagree

even the investigator for the Patriot act found no true evidence that the Patriot has more than 20% of success rate

infact, it was only the computer recording hits
and videos people see on TV only show that patriot broke down by itself

and one US Army General explained to the investigation commitee that by the definition of "hit"
it means the tragectories of both missiles have been met

I think you are watching french tv *LOL* I have no idea were your news is getting it's info, do you know how many missiles have been fired on kuwait??? do you know how many have hit?? *LOL* I would have to call that a HUGE success rate.

sigh

the american mentality
no point in argueing with you

A&E
american publisher
did a presentation on this
http://store.aetv.com/html/catalog/v...764&PID=940087

oK CANADIAN

do you know the latest version of the system has not even been tested?

do you know the version they are useing which I beleive is the 3rd version has not been seen or specs released?

Did you know when that video was produced on it??

DOOD gets your facts in order way before you speak about somthing. Your basing info off a video and data from a war long ago! They already specified the latest patriot missle system does not have anything in common other than similar looks with that first version hahaha

will you stop it with your "canadian" calling crap

yeah send them to war without testing

it was not the A&E documentation that i saw
it was the CBC News
documented along with government officials in Unite States

here is something more for you to read
http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=7058

Even a public notorious for its short memory may recall the Patriot-missile hoax. The Patriot, it was claimed, shot down Scud missiles aimed at Israel and Saudi Arabia. In fact, the Patriots shot down very little, but they’re back in the newspapers again, updated and ready for Gulf War II.

everything knows about the hoax back then
they might changed it
but if it started with a hoax, how much better can it get?
it is so questionable
that is why im posting this and asking for a poll
not a pointless totaly biased arguement with heavy mentality

US Army has a rule

never believe the first source


and i dont believe everything i see on news in a time like this
its got alot of headline races and propagandas

Guess we threw rocks at these today being the missle system does not work becasue the first version did not work so many years ago. That is like saying BMW and Volkswagon still have horrible wireing right now because they did 10 years ago. Or like saying computers are still slow as hell because that 486 I had 10 years ago was sooo slow. *LOL* Also they have fired more missles that must have just fallen out of the sky becasue they never made it even close to hitting their targets, and only two so far sent from iraq were just off target so badly that they landed miles away from the city in the desert. Makes me keep wondering how those missles shot are just suddenly crashing after passing patriot missle sites? why are they just dissapearing from radar? someone shooting them down with an m-16?

"In a statement broadcast by Iraqi television, Iraq's central military command said its units on the Iraq-Kuwait border had pounded "the dens of evil, treachery and tyranny" across the frontier at Ali al-Salem air base, Shuwaikh port close to Kuwait City and Camp Doha, the main U.S. base for its invasion of Iraq.
Kuwaiti officials said earlier that Iraq fired at least two Scud missiles at the Gulf state but they were intercepted, though Iraq denied having Scuds and any involvement in a strike.
The officials also said Iraq fired two other missiles -- smaller, Chinese-made ones -- into Kuwait's northern desert.
The salvo, the Iraqi statement said, was an expression of Iraq's "firm determination to teach the criminal invaders, hard lessons and make them taste bitter pain."

I would love to know what this "american mentality" is, seeing what you had to say about the war the other day before it even started *LOL* is canada on the french side, oh yeah DUH canada is full of french and french views *LOL* Or should we as Americans still NOT be mad at the french like you said and NOT protest what they did and also stop holding it against them by not purchasing their goods??? I seem to remember you saying "we as Americans were being childest for being pissed at the french" Sure is funny now that we are doing what we were said we would do they want to be all nice and have apart of rebuilding iraq being that they DO have so many financial ties with them. I also remeber you saying these finacial ties were just hearsay *LOL* to funny, how many french are in canada again?????

Okay before this gets outta hand EvilTechie you need to stop the Country calling name stuff if your gonna gripe about it. If your gonna say things like

the american mentality
no point in argueing with you

Then ya best damn sure be ready for

oK CANADIAN

I ain't pickin sides but what's good for the goose is good for the gander, don't start it if you don't want to hear it. Next the patriot doesn't need to "hit" the missle to score a hit. As long as the patriot comes within a certain range and detonates it can damage and/or destroy the intercepted missle. As far as shots to kill I'm not sure but I'll have to start checkin' around. In my mind anything like this is impressive, just imagine shooting a bullet out of the air with another gun, not exactly the same thing but pretty damn close.