Missiles find in chemical plant

The Scotsman ^ | GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN AND PAUL GALLAGHER

[RogueIsland]

British officers say it is difficult to find an innocent explanation for storing missiles in a chemical plant.

They obviously haven't interviewed Scott Ritter yet.

[VOA]

British officers say it is difficult to find an innocent explanation for storing
missiles in a chemical plant.

G-d luv 'em.
These British officers just don't have the capacity for rationalization, duplicity,
and blindness of an Iraqi or UN official.

Well done with the find, good friends and allies.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Dec31,1999]

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[ravingnutter]

Two possiblities...found the following in a search:

The warhead bay of the `Scud B' is 2.87 m long forming the nose section of the missile Source

2.87 m = 9.416 Ft., which would make it about the right length of the Scud in the article, if you deduct the warhead length. The following confirms that Iraq's Scud al-Husayn is equivalent to the Scud B and also mentions a shorter version, but no length was provided.

The first upgrade, called the al-Husayn had a range of 600-650 km, allowing strikes on Tehran. This rocket was modified through a reduction of the payload to approximately 300 to 350 kilograms. Some 11.20 meters in length and 0.90 meters in diameter, the Al Hussein corresponds more or less to the SCUD-B (length: 11.50 meters; diameter: 0.88 meters)...A variant of the Al Husayn was also produced, known as the Al Husayn Short.

FAS

[Duckdog]

I was thinking the same thing.

[ravingnutter]

From doing research I found that it could also be an Al-Sumud 2 missile which is described as a miniaturized Scud B. A recent news story indicated that they were cooperating with the UN by destroying some of these this month, so they do have some still. No dimensions are given however, and a search for the dimensions was futile.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

British officers say it is difficult to find an innocent explanation for storing missiles in a chemical plant. To be fair, it is apparent that none of them have looked at the state of my "organization" of my garage shelves - which have all kinds of odd storage configurations.

[The_Victor]

I found an unreferenced report that the Al Samoud 2 is 0.76m diameter, a much smaller missile. I was under the impression that the Al Samoud 2 was an artillery style surface-to-surface rather than a ballistic missile, but I don't recall the source of that "impression".