RE: I don't think that the MOAB killed anyone.
April 19, 2017 at 11:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2017 at 11:02 pm by Jehanne.)
(April 19, 2017 at 8:25 pm)AceBoogie Wrote:(April 19, 2017 at 7:50 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: MOAB was NOT a penetration bomb, it went off at 100 feet. That's how it collapsed the mines. Damn you're dumb.
Exactly my point. lmao the irony.
This kind of reminds me of the hoopla over the Patriot Missile Defense Systems in the Gulf War:
Quote:On February 15, 1991, President George H. W. Bush traveled to Raytheon's Patriot manufacturing plant in Andover, Massachusetts, during the Gulf War, he declared, the "Patriot is 41 for 42: 42 Scuds engaged, 41 intercepted!"[48] The President's claimed success rate was thus over 97% to that point in the war. The U.S. Army claimed an initial success rate of 80% in Saudi Arabia and 50% in Israel. Those claims were eventually scaled back to 70% and 40%.
On April 7, 1992 Theodore Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Reuven Pedatzur of Tel Aviv University testified before a House Committee stating that, according to their independent analysis of video tapes, the Patriot system had a success rate of below 10%, and perhaps even a zero success rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Pa...._accuracy