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To: glock rocks
That is not a Scud. IMO it appears to be a SA-2 surface to air, the "Flying Telephone Pole" of Viet Nam. Not a proscribed weapon.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/dsh/artifacts/RM-SA2.htm
353 posted on 03/22/2003 2:43:42 PM PST by Kadric
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To: Kadric
"IMO it appears to be a SA-2 surface to air, the 'Flying Telephone Pole' of Viet Nam. Not a proscribed weapon."

I believe that missile's an Al-Samoud. The Al-Samoud is a conversion of the SA-2 to a surface-to-surface role. Among other changes, it has a bigger rocket engine and smaller control surfaces (since it doesn't need to maneuver in flight as much as a SAM), both of which seem to be apparent in that video. The Al-Samoud, of course, is the proscribed missile Hans Blix believed Saddam was destroying.

404 posted on 03/22/2003 6:12:08 PM PST by Fabozz
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