Darn Scuds

Darn Scuds


During Gulf War I a lot was heard about the Scud missile. If one thinks back they can recall the horror of watching the
evening news and hearing that a scud had hit a building that housed American service personel. I believe that more then 200 Americans were killed by that one missile. The scud is a very inaccurate missile. You lanch it at general direction and hope it hits something.

Saddam launch many of these at Israel hoping to get the Israel to strike back knowing that if they did, the Arabs who were with the coalitioin led by the United States would leave. Perhaps even attack Israel because she had attacked an Arab state.

The scuds were hard to find, they were on mobil lanchers and could "shoot and scoot". They could be fitted with chemical or biological warheads. Thankfully they never were and were fitted with high explosive. The launchers could be hid during the day in barns, under any kind of cover and at night they could run out set up, lanch, and then they could scoot out of the the area before they could be found. We never did find any to bomb during the whole time of Desert Shield or Desert Storm.

So here are a couple of pictures of a scud. One in travel mode and one (same one really) in launch mode. They are 1/48 scale. That is one inch is equal to 48 inchs in real life. I enjoyed makeing this bit of history and hope you enjoy seeing it and remembering them.