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The United States Deployed Patriot Missiles to Dhahran in 1991: What Let the Scud Pass that Killed 28 Soldiers Was neither Interference nor a Radar Failure
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On 25 February 1991, a Patriot defense system in Dhahran failed to intercept an Iraqi Scud, killing 28 American soldiers. The cause was not a military failure, but a mathematical error: a binary rounding accumulated in the calculation of the time that shifted the radar by 687 meters. A fix existed, but it arrived one day too late. More
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