Scud in a sentence

Since then, Egypt has focused on its indigenous Scud-B and Scud-C manufacturing capabilities.

Israel has been honing its air defences since coming under Iraqi Scud salvoes in the 1991 Gulf war, in addition to receiving support from the US which said in October it had sent an advanced anti-missile system to Israel to support those defences.

The overwhelming American military campaign against Iraq prevented Israel from responding to these attacks; there were, however, murmurs that the Scud attacks undermined Israeli deterrence.

Afterwards, North Korea assisted Iran in setting up production of a domestic Scud-variant called the Shahib-1.

But when Pentagon did its own, it came to a very different conclusion: it could not confirm the destruction of even of the mobile Scud launchers.

In the meantime Saddam Hussein decided to shoot scud missiles at Israel and it became a stressful and demoralizing time.

The ship masked war components -- metal casings and Scud missile manuals -- as water purification equipment.

Thus, five heinous “SCUD” ballistic missile attacks were made by Armenian armed forces on Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan, with a population of half-million people and situated 100 km from the warzone.

U.S. strategic missile warning capabilities were used innovatively to detect tactical scud missiles.

But the hunt failed its military objective, and proved costly, both in the lives of Special Forces operators, and in the 2,500 sorties flown on Scud Hunting missions.

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.

The attack cut production in half and was the biggest on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure since Iraq’s Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles into the kingdom during the first Gulf War.

Israel has made missile defense a priority since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein bombarded the country with 39 Scud missiles during the 1991 Gulf War.

The Scud warheads may have landed most of the time.

The story implied that the goods interdicted had to do with Syrian Scud missiles and repair of surface-to-air missiles and other air defense systems.

Aside from the cables at Banha, Israel refrained from attacking economic and strategic infrastructure following an Egyptian threat to retaliate against Israeli cities with Scud missiles.

By 1988, Iran had become self-sufficient in many areas, such as anti-tank TOW missiles, Scud ballistic missiles ( Shahab-1 ), Silkworm anti-ship missiles, Oghab tactical rockets, and producing spare parts for their weaponry.

During the battle over four hundred Scud missiles were shot, which were fired by a Soviet crew which had stayed behind. citation When the battle ended in July, the mujahideen had lost an estimated 3,000 troops.

If the warhead falls into the desert because a Patriot hit its Scud, is it a success?

Instead, they would launch Scud missiles, which the Iranians could not stop.