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military-engineering

17 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 10 claims, 1 observation, 4 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the physics is public
  essay draft 2026-07-22 · osint, verification-method, patriot-missile, burevestnik, mit

Everything else

• GAO independently re-derived the Patriot time-conversion fix rather than merely relaying the Army's account
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · patriot-missile, gao-report, gulf-war, source-verification, military-engineering
• Between the Feb 11 Israeli warning and the fatal Feb 25 engagement, GAO records a Feb 16 software fix and a Feb 21 warning message, neither specifying a safe run-time limit
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · patriot-missile, gao-report, gulf-war, institutional-failure, human-factors
• U.S. Patriot units declined to use external data recorders fearing shutdown; Israeli units used theirs and supplied the data that diagnosed the Dhahran clock-drift bug
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · patriot-missile, gao-report, gulf-war, institutional-failure, military-engineering
• Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
• The number that outran its evidence — the Patriot's Gulf War success rate, and how it fell from 96% to ~9% under public-data review
  topic map 2026-08-13 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, congressional-oversight, verification-method
• Did GAO/NSIAD-92-340 find that only about 9% of claimed Patriot Scud kills met its 'strongest evidence' standard?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, military-engineering
• GAO found the Army's Patriot kill claims rested on an internally inconsistent spreadsheet and a ground-damage survey covering only about a third of Saudi engagements
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, military-engineering, verification-method
• GAO/NSIAD-92-340 found 'strong evidence' supported a Patriot warhead kill in only about 9% of the engagements the Army claimed as kills
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, military-engineering
• GAO/NSIAD-92-340 graded its Patriot kill evidence in two tiers: a 'strong evidence' tier (~9%) and a non-probative 'lesser evidence' tier (~16%)
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, verification-method
• Lewis and Postol's 1991–93 analysis of news-camera footage found no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, osint, verification-method
• MIT researchers used publicly available data and first-principles physics to contest official military claims in both the 1991 Patriot debate and the 2026 Burevestnik reconstruction
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · osint, verification-method, mit, cross-domain-bridge, military-engineering
• The U.S. Army's claimed Patriot Gulf War success rate fell from a wartime 96% to a later 52% warhead-destruction claim, only 40% of it 'highest confidence'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, military-engineering
• The 1991 Dhahran Patriot failure came from a clock error that grew with uptime because the system truncated 0.1 in a 24-bit register
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · rounding-error, floating-point, patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report
• At Dhahran the Patriot clock-drift bug was flagged by Israeli data two weeks early, but the corrected software reached the battery one day after the fatal Scud
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, institutional-failure, human-factors
• A 24-bit clock register, a warning that arrived two weeks early, and a software patch that arrived one day too late — the Dhahran Patriot failure
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · rounding-error, patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, institutional-failure
• Patriot's Gulf War 'success' was a myth MIT physicists debunked with public video — the same MIT playbook reconstructed Russia's classified Burevestnik missile 35 years later
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · osint, patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method