Patriot missile

The dynamics of a Patriot missile launcher located somevdiere in Saudi Arabia to shoot down incoming SCUD missiles are given by the following openloop transfer function between 6 (the angle between the horizon and the missile direction) and M (the power to the motor that positions the launcher) ... 

Convert the openloop Patriot missile launcher from Laplace-domain transfer function form to state-space form... 

Postol, Lessons of the Gulf War Experience with Patriot , pp.l20-1, 123, 140-5 see also Scud Toll Summing up the 39 Missile Attacks. One Person Killed, 12 Died indirectly, 200 Were Injured, 1,644 Families Were Evacuated, 4,095 Buildings Were Damaged , The Jerusalem Posty 1 March 1991, p.2 US GAO, Patriot Missile Defense Software Problem Led to System Failure at Dhahran, Saudi Arabiay GAO/IMTEC-92-26 (February 1992), pp.l, 7-8. 

General Accounting Office, Patriot Missile Defense. Software Problem Led to System Failure at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, GAO/IMTEC-92-26, February 1992. 

Raytheon builds exoatmospheric kill vehicles. Standard Missiles-2, -3, and -6, airborne radar, the Patriot missile system, and other defense-related equipment. The company had more than 72,000 employees and earned 27 billion. 

Patriot Missile failed to track and intercept a Scud missile attack in Saudi Arabia and hit army barracks killing 28 due to a software bug. 

Patriot Missile II whiskers from tin-plated terminals. 

In an editorial on 29 November, the Times deplored the fact that a few quarrelsome Irish patriots, who claim American citizenship, though obviously they do not value it, declare that the posture of events, the characterization, and some of the text of The Playboy misrepresents Ireland, which they hold to be a land devoid of crime and violence, free from evil passions, and full of brotherly love and virtue . These patriots invade the theatre, pelt the actors with missiles, and try to howl down the performance. Whereupon Irish-American policemen arrest them, and arraign them before an Irish-American magistrate while the performance proceeds. The editorial suggested... 

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