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Of course it counts as missiles missing their target,
You measure accuracy by the extend a missile hit/missed its target, you use something Circular Error Probability (CEP). Missiles failing during launch do not count.
are you honestly that dumb?
Given the disaster of a "logic" you portrayed above, I would refrain from asking such question.
It's even worse than simply missing the target. You measure accuracy by bullets fired and bullets hit, not what happened to them mid flight due to their own design.
You've apparently invented your own way of measuring CEP.
let me teach the basics, CEP utilised something called the Mean Squared Root (MSR), this in part relies on normal distribution of impact points i.e hits.

Therefore, trying to claim CEP includes the missile that did not impact i.e failure during flight is nonsensical and has nothing to do with CEP calculations. In order for the calculation to work, you need to have impacts. According to your logic, if I have 5 missiles of missile family we can call x, and they end up being destroyed e.g by the opposing side's air defence, then this means missile x does not even have a CEP because it never hit the target. But this is essentially what you're suggesting, i.e missile that never made it to target due to malfunction should also be considered. This is clearly ludicrous and is not related to the CEP formula/calculation.
At least read a little around the topic first before replying to comments. Start here:
http://ballistipedia.com/index.php?title=Circular_Error_Probable
Doesn't change the facts, 17 missiles were fired, 11 missiles even got to the target vicinity and only 5 hit structures, which might not have been their intended targets anyways, thus, at most 29% accuracy.
Once again, you're making the same amateur errors. Repeating yourself will not solve the false nature of your claims. Even assuming your wikipedia obtained "facts" are correct:
1- You're once again including missile that failed during firing stage. Ballistic missiles are inherently prone to failures, this is why when you fire at targets, you always fire more than is needed. In other words, you take those failures into account.
2- You're pretending to know what the targets of Iran's attack were and claiming Iran missed those. This is folly.
If Iranian missile were indeed of low CEP, then in order for a hit like this to occur:

Iran could have needed to fire potentially 100s of missiles at that very target. A basic understanding of CEP could have told you that. Yet, missile hit it and its neighbouring targets with pin point accuracy.
Which is a valid one considering the Iranian objective is to wipe us out. Not that they're capable of, but I would expect nothing less if they're going full schizo with ballistic missiles at us.
Iran could easily paralyse Israel as a state, according to your own experts. And again, the fact you're resorting to nuclear system when Iran is using conventional warheads shows how vulnerable you are to these systems.
I'm afraid you're not intelligent enough to understand that Syria's current situation is not a factor in regards to a response against an Israeli airstrike because we have been bombing them for decades *non-stop*, from the 80s until now. not decades ago.
It is quite strange indeed that I have to simply comments for you constantly. Let me try this again. My comment has nothing to do with the history of your attacks on Syria, I am explaining to you why today, Iranian backed groups are not retaliating against Israeli attacks.
Israel has intensified its attack on Syria because you consider a second front against in Syria as almost an existential threat. Listen to your own General (Ret)
That's a lie, Russia already had the S-300 and S-400 for many years in Syria, then they sold the S-300 to the Syrians after the Russian IL20 that was thought to be an Israeli F-16.
You're telling me the Syrian air defense force that claims to shoot down an Israeli F-35 and like a dozen F-16s with the S-200 cannot do the same against an F-16 with the S-300?
You say my statement is a lie and go on to comment on somewhere else. I said S-300 in Syria is under Russian control (most probably), where is your counter to that?
Even if the training of the Syrian crew is supposed to be finished by the end of October, Russia could maintain some control over Syrian air-defence through this system.
https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2018/11/russia-delivers-s-300-damascus-ambitions
S-200 is Syrian and has been under their control for years. So apples and oranges I am afraid.
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