[jvanderbot]

And in particular, many of the failures were from lack of proper operation, such as keeping the system on far too long, causing timer overflows.

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Yeah, one last point on this subthread is, the modern Patriot system is also not at all the same beast, with a lot of upgrades in the decades since.