Patriot unable to stop 1 cruise missile? Really?
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- Thread starter delft
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Really. See: satellite photo evidence.
Patriot never been designed against cruise missiles.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
I dont think the Patriot is the issue, the issues is the monkeys who man them
they probably were unaware how to operate the system
they probably were unaware how to operate the system
Patriot has full automatic operation mode.
Lol, i would say monkey who manned them had better chance than the bikini boys.
This is second time "automated super system" has failed.
We have no way of telling if it was on automatic mode or not, so discussing seems rather pointless.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
You will have to be stupid to operate SAMs on automatic mode in peacetime.
Even in wartime there is hardly any reason to ever operating in such a mode. Not unless you are in so much trouble that you know turning on your radar is pretty much a suicide mission, so you set the system on automatic mode and high tail out of there before enemy SEAD/DEAD assets obliterate the SAM site, and just hope it managed to fire off some missiles and shoot something down before it was toasted.
Even in wartime there is hardly any reason to ever operating in such a mode. Not unless you are in so much trouble that you know turning on your radar is pretty much a suicide mission, so you set the system on automatic mode and high tail out of there before enemy SEAD/DEAD assets obliterate the SAM site, and just hope it managed to fire off some missiles and shoot something down before it was toasted.