Mulling over Mike Powell to Steve Asher 07 Sep 2006

> That was after they were warier of Iran, and bankrolled Iraq during
> the Iraq / Iran war. From memory, Saddam did fire the odd angry Scud
> (during Gulf War I) at Saudi Arabia, which was defended with Patriot
> missiles.

 MP> IIRC, there was one that hit the Marine (?) barracks at Dahran (?)
 MP> which turned out to be the deadliest attack of the war.  It killed
 MP> over 300, and I think it accounted for most of the US losses during
 MP> that war. 

I can see a reference to a Scud hitting the barracks due to "clock drift"
in the Patriot targetting software, which apparently wrongly identified
the incoming missile as a "false alarm". Quite a complex thing, to ID
and hit a missile.

Cheers, Steve..

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