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		bertjk on Feb 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Failed intercept at Dhahran caused by a software e... I've often wondered, considering the supposed low accuracy of Scud missiles, (wiki gives it a CEP of 450m) how much of the casualties from that incident were more due to the bad luck of the missile actually hitting its target.

nerpderp83 on Feb 28, 2018 | [–]

If the Scud had been brought down earlier in it's trajectory it would have not been near people regardless of any randomness in it's landing.

dnautics on Feb 28, 2018 | [–]

many of the scuds "broke up in flight" or otherwise malfunctioned, too, so the actual effectiveness of patriot has been called into question.

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