A third of second does not feel very long until you’re tracking a missile going 3,800 mph. In a third of a second a Scud missile can move almost 2,000 feet. It is very hard to track and intercept something that is a third of a mile away from where you expect it to be. The Patriot system was unable to stop the Scud missile, and it hit the US base, killing twenty-eight soldiers and injuring about a hundred other people.
