emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) (01/19/91)
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com> I am curious as to just what kind of a thing the mobile SCUD missile launcher platforms are. That is to say, whether the apparatus is roughly pickup truck sized, semi tractor-trailer sized, or what, how readily it can be moved and at what speed, and a sense of how easy it would be to "hide one in a residential area" as I think I heard a US media report suggest. It would seem to me that these mobile targets might be quite easy to hide and hard to hit, and thus there could be a lot more scuds fired before the war is out. A decidedly scary thought. --Ed emv@msen.com
smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan) (01/27/91)
From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
In article emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes...
/I am curious as to just what kind of a thing the mobile SCUD
/missile launcher platforms are. That is to say, whether the
/apparatus is roughly pickup truck sized, semi tractor-trailer
/sized
I think the Scud is about tractor-trailer sized with cross-country capability.
The tractors were made by SAAB. I think the Scud 'hides' were constructed and/
or planned some time ago. The Scuds probably shoot from one hide and then scoot
to another hide.