文档介绍：The Unintended Consequences of a career in Engineering Or How to end up a mass murderer without even trying ? The PATRIOT System, and my part in it ? Stands for Phased Array Tracking, Radio Intercept Of Target ? Designed and built at Raytheon, right here in Massachusetts ? First built as an anti-aircraft missile system ? Modified to function as an Anti-Ballistic Missile system ? Deployed during the First Gulf War in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Israel What am I here to talk about? Here's what it looks like How PATRIOT was used ? Initial interceptions of Scud missiles were very essful, but they used 4 PATRIOT missiles per Scud – just to make sure ? This was a problem: ? Iraq had hundreds of Scud missiles, more than all the PATRIOT missiles ready to use. ? So, to make interceptions more economical, modifications were made to have the PATRIOT disable the Scuds, rather than destroy them ? Every effort was made to find and destroy the mobile launchers, without which the Scuds were useless ? PATRIOT batteries were permanently placed around sensitive areas, manned and running 24/7, in case of missile attack How effective was it? ? In the initial trials, extremely ? In 'economy' mode, somewhat less effective ? The strikes by the PATRIOT missiles were skewed towards the front of the Scud ? The idea was to disable / detonate the warhead ? Worked as planned, mostly, but that left 2 tons of rocket still falling on the target ? It helped that the Scuds could not be aimed well ? When deployed to Israel, the 'economy' mode was less helpful as Israel is a densely populated area. ? The worst failure occurred Feb 25, 1991 February 26, 1991 WAR IN THE GULF: Scud Attack; Scud Missile Hits a . Barracks, Killing 27 By R. W. APPLE Jr., Special to The New York Times In the most devastating Iraqi stroke of the Persian Gulf war, an Iraqi missile demolished a barracks housing more than 100 American troops on Monday night, killing 27 and wounding 98, the American mand in Ri