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I read somewhere it has a ~50% success rate. So it seems if the logic is this simple, it works, you just need to launch 3 missiles at the target to be confident
by Gustomaximus 9y ago
I read somewhere it has a ~50% success rate. So it seems if the logic is this simple, it works, you just need to launch 3 missiles at the target to be confident about getting an intercept.
- mlindner 9y agoYou mean some internet blog told you it had a 50% success rate? The actual tests are 100% successful. Do some basic research please. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...
- vilhelm_s 9y agoAccording to a comment elsewhere on this page, the PAC-3 interceptor has a 19/22 (= 86%) success rate in tests. But in the article we are commenting on right now, they fired 5 interceptors at the target, and apparently all of them missed! The article hints that the issue might have been that the system misclassified the targets and hit the booster instead of the warhead. The moral is that you can't be sure that the success rate is independent, there can be systematic errors that affect all of the interceptors at the same time.