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#4394780 - 12/14/17 02:52 PM Re: MIM-104 Patriot [Re: Hpasp]  
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About this article, from SAM point of view...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/04/world/middleeast/saudi-missile-defense.html

If we say, that the PAC3 unit defending Riyadh was at the King Abdul Aziz AFB...
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...and use the destruction zone of the PAC3 depicted in 2003
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than it seems that the Riyadh International was well away (~15km) from the destruction zone of the PAC3
[Linked Image]

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#4395166 - 12/16/17 07:17 PM Re: MIM-104 Patriot [Re: Hpasp]  
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Originally Posted by Hpasp
About this article, from SAM point of view...


than it seems that the Riyadh International was well away (~15km) from the destruction zone of the PAC3
[Linked Image]


[Linked Image]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/04/world/middleeast/saudi-missile-defense.html

P.S. In the source link there is a legend about the picture...

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#4395167 - 12/16/17 07:35 PM Re: MIM-104 Patriot [Re: Hpasp]  
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Looks like it was well inside killing range....
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