What was the success rate of Patriot missiles intercepting Scud missiles in the Gulf War? What are the relevant documents?

Looking at the whole Middle East, Iraq ranks first in military strength, but in the face of multinational Coalition forces, the Iraqi army is tantamount to throwing eggs at stones. In the whole war, the Iraqi army didn't take any advantage, and Saddam didn't want to. In order to reverse the defeat, Saddam instructed the Iraqi army to launch a missile attack on neutral Israel.

Saddam Hussein originally wanted to provoke Israel to participate in the Gulf War, causing resentment among other Arab countries. But the drugs sold in Saddam's gourd have long been seen through by the United States, and the United States sent the best at that time? Patriot? Anti-missile system protects Israel. Although Israel can't swallow this evil spirit, it still refrains for the sake of the overall situation.

What if? Scud? Is this an Iraqi spear? Patriot? It's the shield of Israel!

According to western media reports, Iraq was equipped with two kinds of Scud missiles in the Gulf War, one was Scud -B provided by the Soviet Union, and the other was provided to Iraq after being improved on Scud -B? Hussein? (Al Hussein), the difference between the latter and the former lies in increasing the range and improving the guidance accuracy.

What about most of the weapons Iraq used to attack Israel and Saudi Arabia? Hussein? Type A, Hussein is an old tactical surface-to-surface missile.

Its disadvantages are as follows:

1. adopts liquid rocket engine, so the preparation time is long.

2. Scud is a typical ballistic missile, which does not maneuver when re-entering, has a long flight time and is easy to be detected.

3. The warhead has no protective measures, only ordinary high explosives are added.

Its advantages mainly include the following points:

1. The reentry speed is relatively high, with a maximum speed of 2200m/s..

2. The flight time is short, and the whole flight process is only 7 minutes.

3. The radar reflection area of Scud missile is one degree smaller than that of ordinary aircraft. ....

In order to save space, we will not introduce the advantages and disadvantages of Patriot PAC-2 system, which is mainly used by the US military for interception.

From the outbreak of the Gulf War to199165438+127 October, the United States intercepted more than 30 Scud missiles in Israel and Saudi Arabia. The following table lists some public reports about intercepting Scud missiles.

In order to ensure successful interception, each Scud missile needs to launch two Patriots. If one of them hits the target, the other will self-destruct. But there have also been cases where three Patriot missiles shot down three Scuds.

Many Scud missiles, including those aimed at Tel Aviv and Riyadh, exploded without entering the airspace of these two countries. It is also reported that a missile aimed at Tel Aviv was hit by patriots, then deviated from the orbit and exploded, and was destroyed.

Therefore, due to various reasons, there are different views on the success rate of intercepting Scud missiles by Patriot system, but it is generally believed that the interception rate is about 80%. The reasons why the success rate of 100% cannot be achieved are as follows:

1. Patriot missiles have limited kill range, and many Scud missiles have not fallen into Patriot's kill zone.

2. The Patriot missile system itself has failed.

3. There have been cases where the tail of Scud was hit, but the warhead still exploded on the ground.

However, we have no way to verify whether this is true or not. After all, America is a winner, and history is written by winners.

Note: Some of the contents are quoted from the paper published by Professor Zhang Zhihong of Beijing Institute of Electronic Systems Engineering at 199 1. Thank you.