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#BREAKING: #IRGC backed #Houthi rebels just carried-out a Ballistic missile attack at #Dhahran & #Dammam, #SaudiArabia. Reports about #Aramco's oil facility being one of their targets.
#BREAKING: At-least one ballistic missile has hit the #Aramco's oil facility or possibly in vicinity of that near #Dhahran in east of #SaudiArabia.
#Update: Per #SaudiArabia's defense authorities, it was a combined attack as they used missiles and loitering drones. At-least three drones were shot down by Saudi Air Defense Command.
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El 25 de febrero de 1991, durante la Guerra del Golfo, una batería de misiles #Patriot estadounidenses no logró interceptar un misil #Scud. Murieron 28 soldados.

La causa: un error de 0.000000095 frente al gran error de la #guerra.

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¿Qué ocurrió? ⬇️
Los #Patriot eran (son) misiles tierra–aire de largo alcance y carácter defensivo. Cuando el radar de la batería detectaba un ataque con misiles, los Patriot eran lanzados con el propósito de destruir la amenaza antes de que alcanzara su objetivo.

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El proceso era sencillo:

1⃣ El radar detectaba un objeto extraño.
2⃣ Sabiendo la velocidad de un #Scud, el sistema predecía su "posible" futura ubicación y comprobaba si el objeto había seguido dicha trayectoria.
3⃣ Si la amenaza se confirmaba, se lanzaban los #Patriot.
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