American Technology Can't Beat Good

[MarijuanaClock]

Well isn't that grand, America can't hit 1960 soviet made scuds. American technology can't beat good old fashioned Soviet wobbly-ness. Good to know that Giant defense budget helps us combat old soviet relics from the 1960s ........... And America won the cold war how?

U.S. launches test Scud over Pacific
Monday, November 25, 2002 Posted: 5:42 PM EST (2242 GMT)

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) -- The U.S. military launched a Scud missile Monday to obtain data for use in developing missile defense systems.

The missile lifted off from a mobile launcher, reached an altitude of 281,000 feet and traveled 186 miles before it fell into the Pacific Ocean, Missile Defense Agency spokesman Chris Taylor said. The test was conducted to obtain flight data, and did not involve an intercept attempt, he said.

It was the military's second launch this month of a Scud, a ballistic missile that was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and is now in the arsenals of at least 25 nations, including Iraq.

The launch was part of a $13 million program to help develop an advanced version of the Patriot anti-missile system and other defense technologies, officials said.

The Patriot was put to the test during the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq fired about 90 Scuds. Forty-three landed in Saudi Arabia and 39 in Israel. One hit a U.S. barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 soldiers. A congressional report found that Patriots downed only four Scuds.

The Scud is difficult to hit because it wobbles wildly in flight.

[JudgeDredd]

At 11/27/02 10:56 PM, MarijuanaClock wrote: American technology can't beat good old fashioned Soviet wobbly-ness. Good to know that Giant defense budget helps us combat old soviet relics from the 1960s

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) -- The U.S. military launched a Scud missile Monday to obtain data for use in developing missile defense systems.

The missile lifted off from a mobile launcher, reached an altitude of 281,000 feet and traveled 186 miles before it fell into the Pacific Ocean, Missile Defense Agency spokesman Chris Taylor said. The test was conducted to obtain flight data, and did not involve an intercept attempt.

It was the military's second launch this month of a Scud, a ballistic missile that was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and is now in the arsenals of at least 25 nations, including Iraq.

The launch was part of a $13 million program to help develop an advanced version of the Patriot anti-missile system and other defense technologies, officials said.

The Patriot was put to the test during the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq fired about 90 Scuds. Forty-three landed in Saudi Arabia and 39 in Israel. One hit a U.S. barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 soldiers. A congressional report found that Patriots downed only four Scuds. The Scud is difficult to hit because it wobbles wildly in flight.

haha ..those 'relic' scuds will be cheap as fireworks with the War on W.O.M.D. Thank-God they arn't trying to track sub-atomic particles travelling at near photon speed... weapons of teh future...........

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