What is "scuds"

Usage examples of "scuds".

They held back considerable documentation, key equipment that would be difficult to replace, and a residual force of Scuds and WMD munitions as a final deterrent.

Although virtually all of the Soviet-supplied Scuds have been accounted for, because Iraq was able to produce Scud-type missiles indigenously there is no way to know just what its actual Scud inventory consisted of or how many it now has left.

In addition, the Israeli government has stressed that any American military operation will have to take maximum measures to prevent Saddam from launching Scuds and air strikes at Israel, and this means a large ground presence in western Iraq.

The best case is against Israel, where Iraqi sources have stated that Saddam chose not to arm the Scuds with WMD warheads for fear of Israeli nuclear retaliation.

During the first two weeks of the war, Iraq launched fifty-one Scuds against Israel and Saudi Arabia, and in the last two weeks of the war, it launched twenty-eight.

Ideally, we would also deploy a light or air mobile division to western Iraq to try to prevent Saddam from launching Scuds at Israel and to pressure him from the west.

This would probably rule out deploying ground forces to prevent Baghdad from launching Scuds against Israel or from attacking the Kurds.

This is likely to be a much bigger problem during the buildup than Scuds landing on ports in the region.

Saudi Arabia and down from Turkey and Kurdistan would quickly overrun the areas Iraq must use to launch Scuds at most Turkish and Saudi cities and the main Saudi oil fields and export terminals.

Unfortunately, Kuwait is within range of Iraqi Scuds launched from as far away as the Baghdad area, and we would have to hope that the combination of our aerial Scud-hunting efforts and several batteries of the latest Patriot missiles deployed to Kuwait would take care of whatever Saddam tried to launch before he went down in defeat.

Again, between extensive aerial Scud hunting, the speed of an invasion, and our ability to occupy the areas from which Iraq would have to launch Scuds to hit most of the Saudi oil fields, we should be able to preclude most such efforts.

Gulf War, it has become clear that the success of the Patriots against the Scuds was apocryphal, as few, if any, al-Husseins were actually intercepted by Patriots.

Special Operations Forces would work with the Kurds in the north and would prowl western Iraq to suppress Scuds, with the help of the Air Force.

The Ababils and Al-Samouds were slower and did not break up in flight, as did the Scuds, making them easier targets.

Led by John Mulholland, its job was to scour the western Iraqi desert for Scuds and ensure that the Iraqis did not manage to lob any missiles at Israel, as they had in 1991.