It was these attacks by Saddam that brought the Scud missile system into the American public’s attention. During the Gulf War, Iraq fired around 88 Scud missiles. Of these, 46 were directed ...

It played an important role in the large-scale destruction of Iraqi military bases ... range and trajectory. Ballistic missiles such as the Scud can cover a greater distance at higher speeds ...

The test was announced on... Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Scud missile, while never firing a shot in anger in the Cold War it was designed for, ironically went on to become a major ...

It is unlikely that Iraq could have destroyed, hidden, or sent out of the country the hundreds of tons of chemical and biological weapons, dozens of Scud missiles and facilities engaged in the ...

as well as scouring the deserts of western Iraq for Scud missiles, and gathering intelligence on military sites across the country. In a separate incident, two other members of Britain's Special ...

On February 12, 2025, the U.S. Army successfully executed two Precision Strike Missile Increment 1 engagements ...

surface-to-surface ballistic missile capable of traveling no more than 210 kilometers — and are markedly more accurate than the larger, older, Scud missile variants also used by Assad’s regime. Some ...

The difficulty stopping these types of long-range missiles was discovered decades ago during the 1991 Gulf War. President Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq fired Scud missiles at Tel Aviv.

That water purification unit saw 13 members killed and 43 others wounded on Feb. 25, 1991, when an Iraqi Scud missile struck their barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where they’s been deployed ...

Separate chapters analyze command and control, intelligence, the battle for air supremacy, the offensive air campaign, the air-land battle, the key lessons of the land campaign, the war at sea, the ...

Following Thursday’s confirmation by the Secretary General of NATO that Syria had fired Scud missiles, online activists have uploaded footage appearing to show President Assad's forces launching ...

Their mission was to take out the scud missiles which Saddam Hussein was using to terrorize his enemies, as well as to sever strategic communication lines between Baghdad and North West Iraq.