major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) (05/08/91)
From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) According to the latest issue of 'Army Times' the Scud that struck the barracks and killed 28 soldiers was not detected by the Patriot missile battery guarding the area. It was described as "a glitch in the internal working of the system." The fault was contained in a very complex problem-solving portion of the system's software. The incoming Scud was picked up internally by the battery's computers, but was 'never filtered through the computational process,' and therefore never showed up on the screen. Once the fault was traced, it was "a simple fix." The Scud was intact on impact, and had not broken up as it descended. mike schmitt