IRAQI SCUD MISSILE LAUNCHER

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Subject: IRAQI SCUD MISSILE LAUNCHER

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JAN 91







COUNTRY:  IRAQ

SUBJ:  1. IRAQI SCUD MISSILE LAUNCHER NUMBERS AND DEPLOYMENT

PROCEDURES; IRAQI POSSESSION OF OTHER SOVIET MISSILES

2. IRAQI WORK TO ADD NUCLEAR AND CHEMICAL CAPABILITY TO

THEIR SCUD MISSILES

DOI:  1980-1982







IN ADDITION TO THE

SOVIET-DESIGNED SCUD MISSILES OTHER PARTS OF THIS DIVISION

POSSESSED A SMALLER SOVIET-DESIGNED MISSILE RESEMBLING A SCUD, BUT

MUCH MORE ACCURATE. IN 1982, IRAQ DID NOT POSSESS THE ABILITY TO

DELIVER CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, OR NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITH THEIR SCUD

MISSILES, HOWEVER EXPERIMENTAL WORK WAS ONGOING ON

"NON-CONVENTIONAL" WARHEADS.

TEXT: 1. IN 1982, THE IRAQI ARMED FORCES HAD TWO DIVISIONS

RESPONSIBLE FOR LAUNCHING SOVIET-DESIGNED SCUD MISSILES. AT THAT

TIME, EACH DIVISION POSSESSED 150 MOBILE SCUD MISSILE LAUNCHERS,

SOME PURCHASED FROM THE USSR AND OTHERS MANUFACTURED IN IRAQ, FOR A

TOTAL OF 300 MOBILE SCUD MISSILE LAUNCHERS







6. IN ADDITION TO THE SOVIET-DESIGNED SCUD MISSILES, OTHER

PARTS OF THIS DIVISION POSSESSED A SMALLER SOVIET-DESIGNED MISSILE

RESEMBLING A SCUD, BUT MUCH MORE ACCURATE. THIS MISSILE, NAME

UNKNOWN, HAD THE SAME RANGE AND WARHEAD AS THE SCUD AND IT WAS ALSO

A MOBILE MISSILE.







7. IN 1982, IRAQ DID NOT POSSESS THE ABILITY TO DELIVER

CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, OR NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITH THEIR SCUD MISSILES,

HOWEVER EXPERIMENTAL WORK WAS ONGOING ON "NON-CONVENTIONAL"

WARHEADS. THE WARHEADS UNDER DEVELOPMENT INCLUDED A SO-CALLED

"SMALL", "MEDIUM", AND "LARGE" WARHEAD, SO NAMED BECAUSE OF THE

WEIGHT OF THE WARHEAD.







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