Iraq using new mobile missile launchers: Jane's

times of india ^ | 7/2/02

[knak]

LONDON: Baghdad is using new mobile missile launchers against British and US planes that monitor "no-fly" zones in the north and south of Iraq, the specialist Jane's Intelligence Review reported in its July edition.

Jane's said the weapons system comprised two S-125 Neva missiles capable of being fired from a truck.

"By mounting the missiles on mobile launchers the Iraqis have complicated US and UK efforts to monitor Iraqu's air defences," Jane's said.

The S-125s originally supplied by the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s were static missiles fired from fixed launch pads.

Almost daily skirmishes are reported in the skies of Iraq, which Washington and London patrol to impose a policy of containment on President Saddam Hussein's forces.

Iraq does not recognise the two air exclusion zones, which are not covered by any UN Security Council resolution. According to Baghdad, US and British air strikes have killed 1,477 people and wounded 1,367 since the two zones were set up after the 1991 Gulf War.

[Mike-o-Matic]

   According to Baghdad, US and British air strikes have killed 1,477 people and wounded 1,367 since the two zones were set up

You know what this sounds like to me? ... A GOOD START.

[chemainus]

Now Mike...they might have been innocent bystanders....

[Crossbow Eel]

 
 

Irag's time is near !

[mhking]

Iraq does not recognise the two air exclusion zones

They don't have to -- we do, and that's what's important. After all, we've got the bigger toys. They want to try to challenge? We'll wipe 'em every time.

'Bout as bad as a motorcycle trying to play chicken with a truck. Truck nearly always wins, and here's the important part -- Ties go to the truck...

[WakeUpChristian]

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