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    A Scud missile is one of a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was exported widely to both Second...
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    precise bombings. The role of Iraq's Scud missiles featured prominently in the war. Scud is a tactical ballistic missile that the Soviet Union developed and...
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  • The Afghan SCUD campaign in Pakistan refers to multiple strikes by Afghanistan using SCUD missiles supplied by the Soviet Union against the Mujahideen...
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  • Bora (missile) (Tactical Ballistic Missile) Tayfun (missile) (Short-Range Ballistic Missile) J-600T Yıldırım Fateh-313 Raad-500 (missile) Scud missile 9K720...
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    R-17 Elbrus (redirect from Scud B)
    ballistic missile, initially developed by the Soviet Union. It is also known by its NATO reporting name SS-1C Scud-B. It is one of several Soviet missiles to...
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    MIM-104 Patriot (redirect from Scud buster)
    incoming Scud missiles away from military targets in the desert or disable the Scud's warhead in order to avoid casualties, while in Israel the Scuds were...
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    January 1991, Iraq initiated a missile campaign against Israel. Over the course of the next month, approximately 42 Scud missiles were fired into Israeli territory...
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    romanized: al-Ḥusayn) was a short-range ballistic missile developed in Ba'athist Iraq. An upgraded version of Scud missile, the al-Husayn was widely used by the Iraqi...
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  • Bora (missile) (Tactical Ballistic Missile) Cenk (missile) (Medium-Range Ballistic Missile) J-600T Yıldırım Fateh-313 Raad-500 (missile) Scud missile 9K720...
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    January and 26 February 1991, Ba'athist Iraq launched 46 al-Husayn Scud missiles against Saudi Arabian and American military targets in Dhahran and the...
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    October 22 Scud missile attack, which took place in the midst of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, was the first operational use of Scud missiles in the world...
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  • Burkan-1 (category Scud missiles)
    Burqan 1) is a mobile short-range ballistic missile used by the Houthis in Yemen. It is related to the Scud missile family. Houthi forces unveiled the Burkan-1...
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    KrAZ trucks with S-200 missiles in Ukraine S-75 Dvina missile on a ZIL-131 truck of the East German Army MAZ-7310 with Scud missile of the Afghan National...
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    R-11 Zemlya (redirect from R-11 (missile))
    tactical ballistic missile. It is also known by its NATO reporting name SS-1b Scud-A. It was the first of several similar Soviet missiles to be given the...
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    anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (missile defense). Ballistic missiles are used to deliver...
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  • destroying multiple armed Scud launchers in Kabul. From 1989 to 1991, it is reported the 99th Missile Brigade launched 1,548 Scud Missiles. In the same year,...
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  • of short-range, liquid-fueled missiles including the Scud-B and Scud-C, and is now able to produce SCUD type missiles on its own, such as the R-17E,...
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  • an observation post (OP), and monitoring enemy movements, especially Scud missile launchers: 15  on the Iraqi Main Supply Route (MSR) between Baghdad and...
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    Shahab-1 (category Scud missiles)
    between 1985 and 1988. Iran's Shahab-1 is a short-range ballistic missile derived from the Scud-B, and has a maximum range of 300 km (185 miles). Iran employed...
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    TM-91C target missile simulating a "Scud" missile, launched on a very steep trajectory from a ship located offshore. The IAI TM-91C target missile was itself...
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  • Burkan-2 (redirect from Burkan-2 missile)
    ballistic missile used by the Houthis militants in Yemen. The Volcano H-2 was first launched in July 2017. It is related to the Scud missile family. The...
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  • Jewish shrine in Nablus. The Arrow missile, a missile designed to destroy ballistic missiles, including Scud missiles, was first deployed by Israel. In...
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    cities. Instead, they launched Scud missiles, which the Iranians could not stop. Since the range of the Scud missile was too short to reach Tehran, they...
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    Hwasong-6 (category Scud missiles)
    ballistic missile. It is derived from the Hwasong-5, itself a derivative of the Soviet R-17 Elbrus. It carries the NATO reporting name Scud. Work on an...
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    Hwasong-5 (category Scud missiles)
    range ballistic missile (SRBM) derived from the Soviet R-17 Elbrus missile. It is one of several missiles with the NATO reporting name Scud-B. North Korea...
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    and chemical agents before they are released by incoming Scud missiles. Within seconds of a Scud launch, the 32nd AAMDC TOC can predict its trajectory and...
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  • was a Scud missile derivative. The Scud missiles obtained by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War did not prove helpful as the range of the missiles were only...
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  • was used as a component in the German Wasserfall rocket. The Soviet Scud missile used TONKA-250, a mixture of 50% xylidine and 50% triethylamine as a...
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    late-1970s or early-1980s, North Korea received R-17 Elbrus (Scud-B) ballistic missiles from Egypt. The Hwasong-5 was based on reverse engineering the...
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    is used). In 1995, it was the first system to destroy a R-17 Elbrus Scud missile in the air. China is to test the S-300PMU2's effectiveness in destroying...
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