Patriot missiles... Hero or Hoax?

VAAALIUM!! VAAALIUM!!! OH WHERE DID I PUT MY VAAALIUM!!...

Come, come now lads, if past experience has taught us anything, it's don't believe what u read and half of what they show u.

The technology that is there, is fantastic. Most of the patriots on the frontline are the old ones being used up and the tactic this time is that there are multiple firings for each single interception attempted.

Is it working ? We don't know as yet but we sure as hell hope so! My lil bro is on the frontline so I hope to God it's working.
They were working against time to get the new technology Patriots onto the battlefield in selected sensitive areas to backup the old ones. Untried but expected to do great.

Take everything with a pinch of salt though. Information on the war is also a way of informing Iraq of what we would like them to think as well.

Their best intelligence often comes off of CNN.

So lets keep things civil, its a tough time and friendships can be strained during wars, quite often for no good reason.

And what's the deal with the Canadian bashing? The "peaceful" canadian component of this war is the new targeting technology of the patriot and many other pieces of offering we're dropping in on Saddam.
So although Canada does'nt officially have troops in this assault, I think the fact that they conveniently scrambled and sent their warships into the region for "their usual" duties, just in time for them to reach the region, in time for the first assaults, should give the more astute a hint at what's really going down.

Lets save the rest of this discussion for after the conflict is over.

Please let us pray for the safety of the people who are over there fighting for our sakes. That they may survive to come home to their loved ones.

Y'all take care, and be mindful of our words. Sometimes they do as much damage as bombs and bullets, and leave wounds that can fester for long, looong time. :/

[Aemon_]

amen

I know some people inhere would call this cowboy americal talk but it is how I feel how about you ?? *LOL*

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Amen AI!

amen to that! i'm a BAD American!

I'm on that list, I damn sure guarantee that much.

Actually sucks the patriot system works so well, it looks like a p3 system shot down a Friendly plane...
Group Capt. Al Lockwood, a spokesman for British forces in the Gulf, said the aircraft may have been shot down over Kuwait.


"One of our aircraft recovering from operations over Kuwait, evidence is beginning to come to light that suggests it was engaged by a U.S. Patriot missile," Lockwood told the British Broadcasting Corp.


Asked whether "engaged" meant "shot down," Lockwood said: "Evidence is pointing in that direction."


A U.S. official confirmed that a Patriot missile battery "may have engaged" the aircraft near the Kuwaiti border. The official said that was all the information available at this point.

apparently a patriot missle just shot down an RAF jet...

accuracy is fine, now to improve the IFF system

I just wrote that

[vee_ess]

I must be a BAD AMERICAN.

WHOOHOOOO!!!