Patriot Missiles Intercept 2-3% of Missiles, not 90% as claimed
MIT Scientist documents what Iran already knows. US Military Missile claims are designed to hide how bad it is from the American people.
Earlier I wrote about lies that are designed to keep one’s own citizens in the dark, despite the fact that one’s adversary knows better.
TRANSCRIPT:
3:01
So this is a very important
podcast for those who really want to
understand what the defensive
capabilities of the United States and
Israel are against an escalated exchange
where the Iranians
um you know unload their ballistic
missiles on Persian Gulf and uh and um
uh and Israeli targets. So, so in in
effect uh the what I’ll show and I’ll
use numbers here that rather than a near
90% or over 90% intercept rate and I
underscore underscore that I’m going to
be showing the data here. Uh instead of
a near a greater than 90% intercept
rate, Patriot has an intercept rate of
two or 3%.
QUESTIONS:
1. Are you surprised that American military statistics are off so badly?
2. Are you surprised that the legacy press don’t report this more widely?
3. Are you aware that a similar problem existed with US interception of Saddam Hussein’s SCUD missiles in 1992?
During the war, Coalition forces claimed huge success in knocking Scuds off target and out of the sky. “Patriot is 41 for 42: 42 Scuds engaged, 41 intercepted,” said President George H.W. Bush on February 15, 1991. That would have made the Patriot one of the most successful weapons in history. Although the success rate is still much debated, no post-war study has shown anything close to the accuracy claimed in the heat of battle.
Investigations conducted by the US House of Representatives and the US General Accounting Office found that while Patriots came close to most Scuds, they probably didn’t achieve anything better than a nine percent kill rate. In addition, Patriots added to the debris field of the falling Scuds, occasionally compounding damage on the ground.
4. What, if any, consequences would you expect for the Raytheon, the maker of the “Patriot Missile” or the military procurement officers that commissioned it?
5. Why is this accepted?
6. If the American people judge the Iran War a failure, will it prompt greater accountability?