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2016-07-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2016-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 ...but the use of Patriot anti-aircraft interceptor missiles is unusual.
Price/Unit Cost: The unit cost of a MIM-104F Patriot PAC-3 missile is $3.43 million (in FY 2012).

WTF? Two missiles and they missed?

Posted by magpie 2016-07-18 00:47|| 2016-07-18 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Unable to engage a slow-moving target?

Posted by SteveS 2016-07-18 02:28|| 2016-07-18 02:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The unit price includes R&D so it can be very different to the selling price.

Posted by BernardZ 2016-07-18 07:05|| 2016-07-18 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Testing the Patriot to see if it could get the job done?

Posted by gorb 2016-07-18 10:53|| 2016-07-18 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 So, RAFAEL get his killer drone contract?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-18 14:27|| 2016-07-18 14:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Slow and small evident. Might be the rare target a Sargent York would be good at hitting, but a land based version of the 5"/38 would be used for other things.

Posted by Shipman 2016-07-18 14:53|| 2016-07-18 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems that a .223 AA gun is called for.

Posted by AlanC 2016-07-18 15:37|| 2016-07-18 15:37|| Front Page Top

#8 A pair of belt-fed M-16s mounted in the back of an F-150 and you got yourself a hillbilly ZSU.

Posted by SteveS 2016-07-18 18:03|| 2016-07-18 18:03|| Front Page Top

#9 The Debka (yes, salt, lotsa salt added) take was that it was a Russian drone taking a long look at an IDF exercise that started on June 16. Someone decided that the drone had to be dropped so out came the big guns to make a statement.

Posted by magpie 2016-07-18 20:38|| 2016-07-18 20:38|| Front Page Top

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