Sunday Levity: The Gaussian missile

Countering the Patriot

Pakistan is fully capable of countering Indiaâ€™s Patriot missile system, Defence Secretary Hamid Nawaz said on Friday. In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), Hamid Nawaz said, â€œThere are many strategic and statistical ways to cope with the Patriot missile system.â€ [DT emphasis added]

Their next missile will probably called the Gaussi.

4 thoughts on “Sunday Levity: The Gaussian missile”

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  2. Well, not entirely laughable, I must say. Statistical methods mean that by increasing the missile to anti-missile ratio, i.e. by launching enough missiles one can throw the anti-missile system off. That’s why Russia recently announced its increasing its missile capability, anticipating the future deployment of the American NMD/TMD.

  3. Suran, it is the other way around. They are trying to throw off the Patriot missiles using statistical anti-missiles with presumably binomial trajectories. p<0.005 does it for me. But wouldn’t that be, cough, un-Patriotic?


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