>I saw a great story on the Fifth Estate yesterday (the Canadian version of 60 minutes). It said that the success rate for the Patriot Missile was zero. Reasons given:
>- the military lied about intercepts of SCUDS as part of the propaganda
>- the Patriot system was designed to intercept airplanes, not SCUDs which are much faster
>
>Quite shocking. Here is more info.
>http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/patriot.html

I have read or seen information similar to this in the past. The new Patriots are supposed to be better, but I am a bit skeptical.