Kuwait Coverup
Oops we forgot to. tell you
The mainstream media and the White House have omitted some important things about the Iranian strike in Kuwait.
20 Casualties, aberrant Patriot missile defense failure. Patriot missile systems can fail to successfully intercept a target due to software clock drift, saturation attacks, radar limitations, or electronic warfare. Because missile defense involves complex, split-second calculations, seemingly minor errors in targeting, tracking, or communication can lead to mission failure. [1, 2, 3]
Specific points of failure include:
Software Clock Drift: Tracking computers’ process time as integers and converting them to floating-point numbers. If the system is left running continuously for over 100 hours, cumulative rounding errors cause the internal clock to desynchronize. This offset can cause the system to miscalculate the target’s location by hundreds of meters, making it look in the wrong place.
Saturation Attacks: Patriot batteries operate with a finite number of interceptors and radar tracking beams. If a hostile force launches a barrage of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles simultaneously, the system can become computationally and physically overwhelmed.
Radar Blind Spots: The Patriot’s phased array radar is agile, but it has physical sector limitations. Targets flying at extreme low altitudes, utilizing terrain masking (such as flying between hills or buildings), or entering from outside the radar’s active scan sector can evade early detection.
Electronic Warfare: Hostile forces can utilize jamming, spoofing, or directed energy to disrupt the communication link between the radar, the engagement control station, and the missiles. This interferes with the guidance system’s ability to update the interceptor on the target’s evasive maneuvers.
Target Separation Issues: When intercepting high-speed ballistic missiles, the system may destroy the missile’s main airframe, but the warhead itself can separate and continue along its ballistic trajectory, causing damage on the ground despite a “successful” intercept. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]