The U.S. military better hope that there aren't many days like this in Kuwait. Because if the reports are true -- that four Patriot missiles were used today to fend off incoming Iraqi missiles -- then the U.S. has less than a two-week supply of Patriots left.
Lt. General Ronald Kadish, who heads up the Missile Defense Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that the American stockpile of new, PAC-3 Patriot missiles is somewhere in the "mid-fifties."
So if four missiles are already gone Well, you do the math.
More on Patriots tomorrow in Wired News.
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