To: Netz
Has the Patriot been used against fixed wing aircraft before?
4 posted on
07/24/2018 5:38:19 AM PDT by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: G Larry
Made for much smaller supersonic targets.
9 posted on
07/24/2018 5:46:45 AM PDT by
Delta 21
(Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
To: G Larry
During GWI, a battery took out a friendly (UK) aircraft one night. The a/c’s IFF had a problem, irrc.
To: G Larry
Has the Patriot been used against fixed wing aircraft before? I a friendly fire incident, a British Tornado fighter jet was hit with a Patriot on Sunday, March 23, 2003; the incident happened near the border between Iraq and Kuwait.
14 posted on
07/24/2018 5:58:54 AM PDT by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: G Larry
Sorry, the date of the friendly fire incident was Sunday, March 23, 2003.
15 posted on
07/24/2018 6:00:02 AM PDT by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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