North Korea obliged, supplying Iran with hundreds of Soviet-designed Scud-B and Scud-C ballistic missiles.
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Nicknamed "Scud busters," Patriot missiles were antiballistic missiles employed throughout the Middle East by the United States to defend against Scud attacks.
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Here's what stood out: Early Scud-B This appears to be a Scud-B missile with what might be a Soviet designation on its side.
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South Korean military and intelligence officials said on Tuesday the four North Korean missiles appeared to be an upgraded version of the Scud type - Extended-Range Scud.
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South Korean military and intelligence officials said the four North Korean missiles appeared to be an upgraded version of the Scud type - the "ER" or "Extended Range" Scud.
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The U.S. military said it detected launches of what it believed were two Scud missiles and one Rodong, a home-grown missile based on Soviet-era Scud technology.
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"An advantage of the ER Scud over the Rodong is that the ER Scud is much cheaper," said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
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They scud through their days on a cloud of medication.
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Eric Schmitt reminds us in his 1991 New York Times article, "War in the Gulf: The Weapons; Scud Missiles: An Arsenal of Terror," how elusive Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles were to locate and destroy.
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North Korea also launched two Scud missiles in March last year.
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Egypt denied that the military company had ordered the Scud parts.
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It came like a Scud missile, as Le Monde put it.
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The engine jacked up heat, thrust and range, outpacing the Scud motor.
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So were the Pukguksong-1 — the North's first submarine-launched ballistic missile, which was successfully tested in August — and the Scud-ER, a Scud with an extended range, designed to reach American military bases in South Korea and Japan.
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It was apparently a Scud missile with a range of several hundred kilometers.
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The North has successfully tested its short-range Scud and midrange Rodong missiles.
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The country has successfully tested its short-range Scud and midrange Rodong missiles.
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They are believed to be Scud-type missiles, said ministry spokesman Moon Sang Gyun.
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A week ago, the North Koreans fired off a Scud missile into the sea.
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Much like the Scud-B, this missile's design has origins in the Soviet Union.
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"Scud" is almost like a precursor to Gaga [the movement form created by Ohad Naharin].
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They were likely to have been either Scud or Rodong-class missiles, the sources said.
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North Korea has a large stockpile of Scud missiles, originally developed by the Soviet Union.
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Modified versions of the Scud have a range of up to 1,000 km (620 miles).
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Hwasong, or Mars, in Korean, is the North's name for its Scud-class ballistic missiles.
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The three missiles fired by Pyongyang in that test were short-range Scud missiles, Gen.
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But some news outlets, citing unidentified United States officials, floated a different theory: that the missile was a more mundane Scud-ER, or a Scud with an extended range, and had spun out of control and plunged into the sea nine minutes after its launch.
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The missiles appear to be the same KN-17 scud variant that failed in recent launches.
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South Korean officials said the projectiles were believed to be Scud-type short-range ballistic missiles.
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A family friend would come and go, with tales of faking Scud missile launches in Iraq.
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The last time it tested midrange Scud-ERs, in March, it launched four of them simultaneously.
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"The Saudis made a habit of closing down neighborhoods after a Scud exploded," Mr. Baranger said.
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That indicated the North had launched a modified Scud-class missile, as South Korea's military has said.
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North Korea launched two Scud-type short-range missiles last Thursday from a location south of Pyongyang.
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We were setting off down the notorious Scud ally, where coalition forces were blowing up suspect vehicles.
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At the time, a US official said the projectiles involved in that test were extended-range SCUD missiles.
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Just days ago, North Korea launched a Scud extended-range missile, which US officials said exploded in flight.
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Iran proliferated to the Houthis a Scud missile variant dubbed the Burkan-2H, enabling them to target Riyadh.
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After the Scud exploded, Mr. Baranger ran out from the hotel to retrieve a piece that landed nearby.
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The second was the Qiam, a liquid fueled SRBM that is a finless variant of a Scud-C.
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When a Scud missile explodes overhead, most people don't think to stop and retrieve a fragment of it.
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South Korean defense officials later said the projectiles were Scud-ER ballistic missiles with a 620-mile range.
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It came close to unleashing them after being struck by Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf war in 1991.
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However, a senior US defense official later told CNN that the missile was actually an extended-range Scud missile.
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The Scud-B was first acquired by North Korea from Egypt for reverse engineering sometime between 1979 and 1980.
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On March 6, North Korea launched four "Extended-Range Scuds" (Scud-ER) simultaneously from mobile launchers on a road.
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Saddam Hussein attempted to destroy the U.S.-Arab coalition against him by launching Scud missiles directly into Tel Aviv.
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Earlier this month North Korea tested a liquid-fueled Scud missile which only traveled a fraction of its range.
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It fired a land-based scud missile, which traveled 32 miles before crashing into waters east of the Korean peninsula.
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Being derivatives of the Soviet SCUD-B missile and the North Korean No Dong, these weapons can become nuclear-capable.
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North Korea has for years been suspected of providing Syria with advanced Scud missiles and the technology to produce them.
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The Nodong, sometimes spelled Rodong, is a modified version of the Scud missile and can reach American bases in Japan.
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In the 1980s, Mr. Hussein fired scud missiles at Israel and used chemical weapons on tens of thousands of Iraqis.
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The South is seen as particularly vulnerable to a saturation attack, using short-range Scud and other missiles targeting Seoul.
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Shumadine, according to his LinkedIn profile, had served as a military intelligence analyst scrutinizing Iraqi Scud missiles and special-forces operations.
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Image quality is grainy but last time we saw the NRV (bi-conic) nose cone was on a ER-Scud. pic.twitter.
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By 1984, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, it had developed the Hwasong-5, a homegrown version of the Scud missile.
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Solid fuel ashore After seeing the potentially new Scud variant, we saw the KN-143 (also known as the Pukguksong-2).
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North Korea launched four Scud-ERs simultaneously last month, some of them splashing down in waters in Japan's exclusive economic zone.
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"Part of it was, we wanted to know if it was a piece of a Scud or a Patriot," he explained.
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For years, North Korea has been suspected of having provided Syria with advanced Scud missiles and the technology to produce them.
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They also took over large swathes of Yemen's conventional military, including Scud missiles, when they seized the capital in late 25.
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"We are now certain it was a liquid-fueled Scud," said a senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and flew about 450 km (280 miles), South Korean officials said.
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Saddam Hussein attempted to destroy the U.S.-Arab coalition against him during that war by launching Scud missiles directly into Tel Aviv.
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However, they were aerodynamic enough to sail several yards past the target before landing on some unsuspecting neighbor like a Scud missile.
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The Scud-class missile fired by North Korea reached an altitude of 120 km (75 miles), the military spokesman told a briefing.
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Among the deadliest weapons deployed against civilians were Scud missiles, aimed at rebel-held areas in the early years of the war.
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Bush's father demanded that Israel break its own strategic doctrine by not responding to the Iraqi Scud attack during the Gulf War.
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"The Syrians who have rejected Assad have endured four years of shelling, barrel bombs, gas, Scud missiles, chemical attacks, torture," Kerry said.
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Terminal guidance Following the KN-11 we saw an as-yet unidentified missile on a tracked vehicle similar to the Soviet Scud design.
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When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Kim offered Khomeini Scud missiles and sent military advisors to aid the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
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On Monday, Pyongyang launched what South Korean officials called a Scud-type missile that flew 280 miles before falling into waters near Japan.
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As mentioned above, the Qiam can trace its origins to the Scud-C, which in Iran has been rebranded as the Shahab-2628.
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The fish grow so big because the limestone-rich waters support abundant plankton, which are consumed by billions of scud, a freshwater shrimp.
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North Korea launched a Scud missile last week which went only a short distance before crashing into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula.
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Bands with similar anti-consumerist messages performed, with names like Pregoblin and Scud FM, that have sprung up here following Fat White Family's success.
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Purchased from the Soviet Union and North Korea, the Iraqi Scud stockpile was estimated at the time to comprise from 300 to 1,000 missiles.
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As for South Korea's vulnerabilities to a swarm-like attack, the North is known to have short-range Scud and other missiles targeting Seoul.
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The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and flew about 450 km (280 miles), the Joint Chiefs said in a statement.
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The hermit kingdom on Tuesday launched a Scud missile, which went only a short distance before crashing into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula.
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In the past, they have boasted of launching around a dozen Scud missiles at the south of the kingdom during more than a year of war.
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U.S. officials said on Wednesday that the missile appeared to be a liquid-fueled, extended-range Scud missile which only traveled a fraction of its range.
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The ER Scud is slighter and smaller than the Nodong, and three ER Scuds appear to have been fired in a similar salvo in September 63.
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It's possible they were short-range Scud missiles or were otherwise launched from a multiple-launch-tube system, the Times cited South Korean officials as saying.
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Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence matter, said the missile was a Scud variant that the U.S. calls a KN-17.
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Compared to liquid-fueled Scud missiles fired at launch sites, the new missile uses solid fuel, which makes it easier to transport and quicker to launch.
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North Korea has deployed and has often successfully tested short-range Scud and midrange Rodong ballistic missiles that can reach most of South Korea and Japan.
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The U.S. military said it believed two of the missiles were Scuds and the other a Rodong, a home-grown missile based on Soviet-era Scud technology.
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Speaking to CNN, a US official said a preliminary assessment found that North Korea launched a total of five extended-range SCUD missiles, one of which failed.
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Rodong missiles, developed from Soviet-era Scud missiles, make up the bulk of the North's short- and medium-range missile arsenal with an estimated stockpile of 200.
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Houthi-controlled al-Masirah TV reported that the missile, an Iranian-modified scud, had been targeting a meeting of Saudi leaders, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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The Hwasong-10's engine uses a complex design that signals a break from North Korea's reliance on iterations of the Scud and similar Nodong missile engine.
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Pyongyang's arsenal ranges from short-range Scud-like missiles, to large intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) that may be capable delivering a nuclear warhead to the US mainland.
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The launch was the North's first ballistic missile test since it tested a Scud-type short-range missile and two midrange Rodong ballistic missiles on July 19.
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Saturday's attack is the biggest on Saudi oil infrastructure since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when the Iraqi military fired scud missiles into the kingdom.
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South Korean officials said they were also looking into the possibility that the projectiles were short-range Scud missiles or rockets from multiple-launch tubes — or both.
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North Korean propagandists used rudimentary editing techniques to crop and flip old video footage of an earlier SLBM test and Scud missile launch, the CNS study showed.
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According to the Missile Defense Agency, "North Korea fields hundreds of Scud or No Dong missiles" that can reach American troops stationed in South Korea and Japan.
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And like that, the storm is gone, churning east, leaving tattered scud clouds drifting along the ground, and dark shapes keeling at odd angles in the sky.
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Saturday's attack is the biggest on Saudi oil infrastructure since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when the Iraqi military fired Scud missiles into the kingdom.
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And in 2017, Houthi rebels in Yemen used an Iranian variant of a finless Scud missile called the Qiam-1 (or Burkan-2H) to retaliate against Saudi Arabia.
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In the three earlier launches, North Korea tested different kinds of ballistic missiles, two medium-to-long range missiles as well as a short-range Scud class weapon.
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When the Iraq-Iran War ended, North Korea helped Iran develop its own Shahab missile based on the Scud B design it had obtained from the Soviet Union.
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Other North Korean Scud variants have demonstrated this range, such as four which were fired into the sea near Japan in March 2200, after flying over 2745,211 kilometers.
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North Korea is believed to have more than 200 medium-range Rodong missiles with a range of 1,300 km (807 miles), developed from Scud missiles with Soviet technology.
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But the types of midrange missiles North Korea has launched in recent months — including the Scud-ERs, with a 620-mile range — pose another problem for South Korea.
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They and the US blame the Iranian regime for supplying the weapons, claiming Hezbollah militants smuggled the Iranian-modified Scud missiles to the rebels in Yemen from Iran.
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North Korea had just launched a Scud extended-range missile, only the latest in a series of launches by the rogue state in the first four months of 2017.
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The Unha-3 is a three-stage vehicle, with the two largest stages based on Scud missile technology from the 1960s, rather than advanced engines and fuel, Wright added.
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A website associated with the Houthi rebels' media-wing did publish a video of what they said was a Scud-type missile launch that targeted a Saudi oil refinery.
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North Korean exports of military equipment to the Arab nation, including propellants for Syria's Scud ballistic missiles, protective chemical suits and respirators, are believed to have occurred for years.
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Starting in the 1970s, Cairo and Pyongyang collaborated to extend the range and accuracy of Soviet Scud missiles, said Owen Sirrs, a former agent with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Sanctioned by the Carter administration, the newly founded Islamic Republic turned to North Korea to replenish its military arsenal with Scud missiles during the 2628-28503 Iran-Iraq war.
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And during North Korea's devastating famine in the 1990s, Hanoi swapped rice for weapons from Pyongyang, with Vietnam getting two miniature submarines and some Scud missiles, among other weaponry.
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During the 1991 Gulf war, Iraq fired dozens of Scud rockets into Israel, which did not retaliate, out of consideration for U.S. efforts to maintain an Arab coalition against Saddam.
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This new $4 million came courtesy of battery makers Guangzhou Penghui Energy and SCUD Group, industrial design tooling factory ESID, and supply chain-focused firms Delian Capital and Chunjia Assets.
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The Scud ER is a short-range ballistic missile with a range of about 113,000 kilometers (621 miles), according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Missile Defense Project.
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After hearing of an Iraqi Scud missile attack on Israel, Blitzer worked with Pentagon sources to confirm the precise location where in a Tel Aviv suburb the missile had landed.
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Now, as missile threats grow from North Korea, Iran and other actors who have found Scud missiles for sale in the world's arms bazaars, it's time for missile defense 85033.
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Haley presented the components of two Scud-class 37-foot-long missiles as evidence that Iran is violating the terms of its nuclear agreement, especially UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
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During the war, Iraq launched Scud missiles against military and civilian targets in Saudi Arabia — as well as against Israel, which heeded Washington's pleas not to join in the conflict.
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Japan, within range of the longer-range variant of Scud missiles or the upgraded Rodong missiles, lodged a protest through the North Korean embassy in Beijing, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
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U.S. officials said the missile launched on Wednesday appeared to be a liquid-fueled, extended-range Scud missile that only traveled a fraction of its range before spinning out of control.
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Missile movement Meanwhile, a US defense official said spy satellites are continuing to pick up signs of movement of scud missiles in North Korea that indicate preparations for a potential launch.
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The officials say the North has developed the multiple-tube launchers because they are cheaper than short-range, Scud-type ballistic missiles and because they enable more projectiles to be fired.
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The paper reported that in 2013, Combs referred to endangered species protections as "incoming Scud missiles," and said she "clashed often" with Interior and FWS officials over the Endangered Species Act.
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The report also outlined a 2013 shipment seized en route from Beijing to Cairo that contained "spare parts for or items used in Scud-B missile systems" produced in the DPRK.
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A comprehensive United Nations report published in February implicated Rungrado in the illicit shipment of Scud missile parts to Egypt, and it is also suspected of smuggling luxury goods into North Korea.
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The missile launched on Monday was equipped with an advanced automated pre-launch sequence compared with previous versions of the "Hwasong" rockets, North Korea's name for its Scud-class missiles, KCNA said.
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That missile, which U.S. officials said appeared to be a liquid-fueled, extended-range Scud, only flew about 60 km (40 miles), a fraction of its range, before spinning out of control.
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Last month, North Korea fired four Scud-Extended Range missiles that could be used to attack U.S. and Japanese military bases but the ballistics only flew about 40 miles before losing control.
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During this year's war games in March, North Korea launched four extended-range Scud missiles into the sea in what it described as a rehearsal for striking U.S. military bases in Japan.
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Thursday's missiles flew about 20083 km (300 miles) into the sea, off the east coast city of Wonsan and probably were part of the Soviet-developed Scud series, South Korea's defence ministry said.
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While this Scud might not be from that original transaction, it shows former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the missile system that would eventually become a major influence on their program.
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The U.N. experts said activities between Syria and North Korea they were investigating included cooperation on Syrian Scud missile programs and maintenance and repair of Syrian surface-to-air missiles air defense systems.
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Nagoshi, meanwhile, would build on his stellar use of Model 2 hardware in Daytona USA with the beautiful Model 3 showcase Scud Race in 1996 (known as Sega Super GT in the US).
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But even with Iran&aposs 150+ medium and short range ballistic missiles, analogous to Saddam Hussein&aposs Scud missiles of the Iraq wars, there is a shortage of US targets within striking range.
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Now, his Scud souvenir has become a daily reminder — for those lucky enough to work in the safety of The New York Times's newsroom — that not all journalists operate in such ideal conditions.
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It put the price of each Scud at $23 million to $2 million; each Musudan from $3 million to $6 million; and each submarine-launched ballistic missile at $5 million to $10 million.
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The missile, described by one official as a Scud, was fired from Houthi controlled territory near Sa'Dah in northern Yemen and flew some 930 kilometers before landing near the western coast of Saudi Arabia.
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North Korea has tested many of its short-range Scud and medium-range Rodong missiles, but not much is known about the Musudan, which was unveiled in 2010 during a military parade in Pyongyang.
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The Hwasong artillery units are believed to be involved in the development of intercontinental missiles, but Hwasong also refers to a class of medium-range North Korean missiles, their version of a Scud missile.
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It is reported that North Korea later obtained its first Scud-B ballistic missiles from Egypt in 1979 or 1980, according to the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a non-profit research body.
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On Monday local time, the Hermit Kingdom test-launched a scud missile that crash-landed in Japanese water, leading that country's prime minister, Shinzō Abe, to promise "concrete action with the United States" in response.
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That missile flew about 60 km (40 miles) but what U.S. officials said appeared to be a liquid-fuelled, extended-range Scud missile only travelled a fraction of its range before spinning out of control.
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The North developed the weapon because it is cheaper than its short-range, Scud-type ballistic missiles and allows it to fire far more projectiles, Mr. Han said in an interview with South Korean reporters.
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Those were believed to be short-range, Scud or Rodong-type missiles and flew 300 to 380 miles (500 to 600 kilometers), said Jeon Ha-gyu, spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Some of those components were imported, "ranging from cannibalized Soviet Scud parts to equipment produced in the United States, Europe and Asia," said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
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North Korean pilots trained Egyptian fighter pilots before the 1973 war with Israel, and Egypt was later accused of supplying Scud missiles to North Korea, said Daniel Leone of the Project on Middle East Democracy.
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When the first Gulf war occurred and CNN was covering scud missile attacks from a Baghdad hotel in the middle of the night, the news stopped being a public service and started being a competitive enterprise.
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North Korea has tested many of its short-range Scud and medium-range Rodong missiles, but it had never flight-tested the Musudan, unveiled for the first time in 2010 during a military parade in Pyongyang.
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North Korea also supplied Iran with its own medium-range No-dong missile, a scaled-up adaptation of Scud technology with an estimated 383,500-kilometer — or roughly 930-mile — range first flown by North Korea in 1993.
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Wednesday's launch of a Scud-ER ballistic missile from the port city of Sinpo, home to a North Korean submarine base, indicated an evolution of weapons fired from land and sea, according to the Australian think tank.
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Moreover, on any given day, there are perhaps 2628,28503 Americans (including 22019,000 U.S. troops and their families) in the greater Seoul area within range of some 10,000 artillery tubes, SCUD and other missiles, as well as nukes.
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A company known as the Korea Rungrado General Trading Corporation, which is directly owned by Kim's Workers' Party and has been implicated in the illicit shipment of Scud missile parts to Egypt, was also named in the document.
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Yet suddenly some extraordinary events break into these insignificant, mundane moments: street demonstrations and a revolution in the making; Scud missiles being launched on vulnerable cities and its people; the persistent soundtrack of barrel bombs falling from helicopters.
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The missile was equipped with an advanced automated pre-launch sequence compared to previous versions of the "Hwasong" rockets, KCNA said, indicating the North had launched a modified Scud-class missile, as South Korea's military said on Monday.
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From shared Scud missile technology, to Iranian scientists present at North Korean nuclear tests, North Korea knows many of Iran's secrets and can certainly provide enough evidence to satisfy even the most skeptical members of the international community.
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Some outside civilian experts believe the North has the technology to mount warheads on shorter-range Rodong and Scud missiles that can strike South Korea and Japan, two key U.S. allies where about 80,000 American troops are stationed.
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Recovered parts allowed experts to conclude that the second stage booster likely used Soviet-era Scud missile technology and did not use advanced propellant, indicating the rocket was suited for satellite launch but unfit to deliver a warhead.
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Mr. Kim said it was more reasonable to believe that the North was testing a modified version of either the Scud-ER or Pukguksong-2 or a new missile, even an early version of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The last time the US military used landmines during a conflict was during the first Gulf War in 1991 when Gator landmines were dropped by US aircraft to limit the movement of Saddam Hussein's inventory of Scud missiles.
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South Korea's military said on Saturday North Korea appeared to have modified the video and edited it with Scud missile footage from 2014 although an official told Reuters the ejection technology might have improved since the May test.
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North Korea launched a projectile on Wednesday, which U.S. officials said appeared to be a liquid-fueled, extended-range Scud missile that only traveled a fraction of its range before spinning out of control and crashing into the sea.
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The two projectiles, believed to be Scud-C missiles, took off from a site south of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and flew across the peninsula before crashing into the sea off the North's east coast, the statement said.
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North Korea fired a liquid-fueled Scud missile this month, the latest in a series of tests that have displayed the Pyongyang regime's ability to launch attacks and use hard-to-detect solid-fuel rockets and tracked launch vehicles.
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But on March 210th pictures appeared in the North Korean media of what appeared to be a nose-cone from a KN-238 placed on an engine test stand one and a half metres beneath an ignited Scud rocket motor.
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A greater concern than multiple Scud-type missiles would be if North Korea proved the ability to fire simultaneous salvos of other types of missiles that could carry heavier payload, said one U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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"It seemed that there was an unlimited supply of Scud missiles flying all over the Middle East," said Walt Baranger, who collected the fragment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, while on assignment there as a news technology editor for The Times.
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In South Korea, the Sino-ri facility has long been known as one of the bases housing the Nodong, also called the Rodong, a medium-range missile based on Soviet-era Scud technology that the North began deploying in the mid-1990s.
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But the leaders of two government-run research institutes in Seoul have recently said that they believed North Korea was now able to mount a nuclear warhead on a short-range Scud or medium-range Rodong missile, if not on an ICBM.
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In 2013, a shipment of spare parts for Scud-B missiles, which have a shorter range than the Nodong, was intercepted in transit as it was shipped by air from the North Korean Embassy in Beijing to a military-controlled company in Cairo.
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"If the missile launched on Wednesday was a failure, it's hard to believe that it involved either a Pukguksong-2 or Scud-ER," said Kim Dong-yub, a missile expert at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University in Seoul.
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When North Korea launched four Scud-ER ballistic missiles on Monday, it tried to demonstrate an ability to simultaneously launch multiple missiles at American bases in Japan and at American aircraft carriers around the Korean Peninsula, South Korean military officials said Tuesday.
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Billed as a spiritual successor to Daytona USA—which eventually received a proper sequel in 1998— Scud Race still looks impressive today but is rarely spoken about with such fondness as the other games mentioned here, partly because it never received a home port.
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In the last year, North Korea has tested a series of missiles, like the Scud-ER, Rodong and Hwasong-12, which it said would be used to hit American military bases in Japan and Guam, as well as American aircraft carriers approaching the Korean Peninsula.
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Lewis points to similarities not only between North Korean and Iranian Scud derivatives like the No-dong and Shahab but also similar design choices, incorporated into the two countries' space launch rockets and the migration of design concepts and components from one country to the other.
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Lewis points to similarities not only between North Korean and Iranian Scud derivatives like the No-dong and Shahab but also similar design choices, incorporated into the two countries' space launch rockets and the migration of design concepts and components from one country to the other.
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To critics who say he was rash to intervene in a land that has bloodied foreign armies before, Prince Muhammad says the action, if anything, came too late: the Shia Houthis, with Iran's help, had taken the country and sophisticated weapons, such as jets and Scud missiles.
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Over the intervening years the conflict has escalated, several thousand Yemenis have been killed, a third of the country's population is short of food, and Houthi-fired, Iranian-made missiles frequently scud over hundreds of kilometers of desert to be shot down near the Saudi capital.
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By the time Mr. Obama took office in January 2009, the North had deployed hundreds of short- and medium-range missiles that used Russian designs, and had made billions of dollars selling its Scud missiles to Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
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North Korea has also been accused of the online hacking of bank accounts; the sale of nuclear know-how; black-market arms sales, including scud and other missiles to Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Eritrea and other nations; and a whole military enterprise set up to steal crypto currencies.
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In the past, Israel has always been a potential deal breaker for any coalition of Muslim countries engaged in an alliance with the U.S. Saddam Hussein, for example, tried to destroy the coalition against him in the first Gulf War by launching Scud missiles at Tel Aviv in 1991.
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South Korean and American specialists said the missile tested on Wednesday, which the South Korean military said flew a mere 37 miles, was probably a modified version of either the Scud-ER or Pukguksong-2, or perhaps a new missile — even an early version of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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While North Korea has developed potential longer-range rockets, such as its 30-metre (98 ft) Unha-3, a home-grown three-stage rocket based on 1950s Soviet Scud missile technology, it needs to be fueled from a fixed launch pad making it easy to detect and impractical as a weapon.
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The North's attempts to develop longer-range missiles have caused considerable alarm, but Pyongyang has also been striving to improve its Scud-based short- and medium-range missiles, which could strike targets in South Korea and Japan, including United States military bases and aircraft carriers that often sail in nearby waters.
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North Korea last test-fired a ballistic missile on May 21 off its east coast and said on Sunday it had tested a new anti-aircraft weapon supervised by leader Kim Jong Un. [nL3N1IU014] It has tested Scud-type short-range missiles many times in the past, most recently in April, according to U.S. officials.
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The next issue is whether the North Koreans have graduated from devices that can be tested to devices that can be fitted onto either its existing medium-range Nodong missile (developed from the Soviet-era Scud C) or its two missiles under development, the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) and the KN-08 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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South Yemeni forces acquired Soviet missiles during their civil war with what was then North Yemen before it ended in 1994, and the subsequent national government of Yemen, whose institutions are now under the control of the Houthi faction, had said as long ago as 2002 that it had bought a shipment of Scud missiles from North Korea.
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North Korea has deployed and often tested short-range Scud and midrange Rodong ballistic missiles that can reach most of South Korea and Japan, but it has had a spotty record in test-launching the Musudan, its only missile with a range long enough to reach American military bases in the Pacific, including those on Guam.
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She ends up coming across a gruff marine general (Billy Bob Thornton) who secretly respects her, a rival reporter (Margot Robbie) who shows her the ropes in Kabul, a Scud-stud-like Scottish correspondent (Martin Freeman) with whom she shares a nose for danger and a bed, an Afghan official (Alfred Molina) who might be the most ill-conceived character I have seen in a film in a long, long time, and, most memorably, an Afghan concierge (Christopher Abbott) who, in his understated and devout way, may care more about her than any of them.
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