Scud missiles
Gulf War projectiles
Scud missiles are Soviet-designed ballistic missiles, originally developed in the 1960s and widely exported.
The name became familiar during the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq fired Scuds at Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Scud now serves as a generic term for older, inaccurate ballistic missiles used by various nations: Coalition forces targeted Scud launchers.
- ballistic trajectoryCurve of unpowered projectile
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- warheadMunition's explosive section
- propulsion systemEquipment generating motive force
- Gulf War1991 Kuwait liberation
Desert Storm · counteroffensive · Cold War · V-2 rockets · payload capacity · United Nations sanctions · proliferation · air raid siren · launch platform · deterrence · allied forces · guidance system · arms race · Iraq · Saddam Hussein · regional instability · Tel Aviv · air superiority
- Cold War militariesSoviet Army, Warsaw Pact, Soviet military, People's Liberation Army, tank divisions
- Gulf WarDesert Storm, Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein
- Munitionsbombs, bullets, ordnance, warheads, munitions
- Bush 41Barbara Bush, Dan Quayle, Gulf War, Desert Storm, read my lips
- Middle East WarsGulf War, Iraq War, Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, Iran-Iraq War
- War on TerrorOsama bin Laden, IED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge