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- From: fujimoto@carson.u.washington.edu (Bryant Fujimoto)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Patriot Missile
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.074719.8180@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 07:47:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov23.074719.8180
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- pmorvill@jade.tufts.edu (Paul Morville) writes:
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- >I apologize if this is the wrong group, but I have a question.
-
- >When was the Patriot first invented? When was it first implemented? I was
- >under the impression that it came into existence shortly before the the
- >Persian Gulf War. Is this correct? Thanks.
-
- The Patriot missle system is ~20 years old. It was originally designed
- to shoot down airplanes, not missles. I believe that the 20 year figure
- does not include the time it took to develop the missle, so from the time
- the missle was first proposed to the present is more than 20 years, but
- I am not sure how much more.
-
- Bryant Fujimoto
- The usual disclaimers apply.
-