Russian-made R-60, NATO AA-8 Aphid, air-to-air missiles were found..
The Russian-made missiles are >6 feet long. Each carries 3.5 pounds of uranium.
wrapped around a high explosive warhead (13.2-pound) making a possible "dirty bomb".
Russian-made R-60, NATO AA-8 Aphid, air-to-air missiles were found..
The Russian-made missiles are >6 feet long. Each carries 3.5 pounds of uranium.
wrapped around a high explosive warhead (13.2-pound) making a possible "dirty bomb".
Both Russian and Chinese weapons have been found in abundance in Iraq. It cracks me up - many on the Left and even, sadly, a few here, love to point to "Reagan helping Saddam" or "Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam" and blab on, untruthfully, that supposedly "Saddam's WMDs were supplied by the US." To set the record straight, the US supplied some small number of CONVENTIONAL weapons and choppers to Saddam very early in the 80s to counteract radical Iran. That was it. That stuff, if not used in the Iran - Iraq War, long ago passed its shelf life. EVERYTHING supplied to Saddam since the mid 1980s HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY THE USSR, RUSSIA, THE PRC, THE DPRK, SYRIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, UKRAINE, PAKISTAN, SERBIA, BOSNIA AND CUBA. End of discussion.
Iraq-Russia spy link uncovered / SECRET FILES: Documents reveal Iraqi agents trained in Moscow
Personnel files found in a Baghdad building housing the Iraqi secret police contain training certificates from Moscow. San Francisco Chronicle Photo