[GonzoGOP]

"20k, 26,000ft range limit on the SAMs"

Is is just me or did that WWII vintage B-17 have an altitude limit of 35,000 feet. You hardly need high tech to defeat this system. Those missiles may be fine for tactical use, like preventing your tanks from being strafed, but they are quite useless for protecting a strategic target that can be bombed from altitude.

In contrast the patriot missile, that is intended for strategic rather than tactical defense, has a range of 70km and a maximum altitude of 80,000 feet. Looks to me like the boys in the mosque bought the wrong kind of missile for the job they needed doing. So sad too bad.

[finnigan2]

“Looks to me like the boys in the mosque bought the wrong kind of missile for the job they needed doing. So sad too bad.”

- Yes, I was thinking that a missile defense system which had a radar range of 30km. would just be able to detect a mach 2 jet before it was on top of them. The Arabs seem to think that buying lots and lots of crap is better than buying one good systems for the same price. It was the same with Saddam. He had hundreds of Russian supplied tanks which looked great during military parades but when it came to the showdown the Abrams stood outside their range and destroyed them by the dozen without a single loss.