Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
by Gustomaximus on Monday December 04, 2017 @08:53PM
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I read somewhere it has a ~50% success rate. So it seems if the logic is this simple, it works, you just need to launch 3 missiles at the target to be confident about getting an intercept.
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Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
by vilhelm_s on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:29AM
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According to a comment elsewhere on this page, the PAC-3 interceptor has a 19/22 (= 86%) success rate in tests. But in the article we are commenting on right now, they fired 5 interceptors at the target, and apparently all of them missed! The article hints that the issue might have been that the system misclassified the targets and hit the booster instead of the warhead.
The moral is that you can't be sure that the success rate is independent, there can be systematic errors that affect all of the interceptors at the same time.
Re:Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia?
by mlindner on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:06PM
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You mean some internet blog told you it had a 50% success rate?
The actual tests are 100% successful. Do some basic research please. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...