Iraq Modifies SAS-3 Surface-to-Air Missiles To 2 Stages In Effort to Strike US/UK Pilots (Breaking)

Pakistan Daily (from WashTimes/Gertz) ^ | 16 November 2002 | Pakistan Daily

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

Breaking.

Located th thru Google news search, in the PAKISTAN DAILY news, and picked up from Bill Gertz report in D.C., and also breaking in Asian news sources on the web: A report out tonight that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi military have gone forward to modifications of their surface to air missiles, by changing/upgrading to two stages (SA-3 missiles) thus increasing the kill range in order to bring down more US/UK pilots who are flying the no-fly zones right now.

Breaking.

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[SamAdams76]

What action by the enemy?

[uncbob]

I thought we had pretty much decimated his air defenses in 91 and it seems every other week since then we have been attacking them
Where is he getting them

[SwinneySwitch]

bring down more US/UK pilots

0 + 0 = more???

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

North Korea

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

So much for the UN resolution, it's time to crack Saddam. He reneged on the diplomacy when he fired on our aircraft this afternoon. And now we find out he's pulling another stunt with his SAMs. Stand by Saddam, you're just in time for the Ramadan fireworks.

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

sorry, typo there (although there could always be a first and they still have Scott), as well as another typo: should read "SA-3". I had the Brits on my mind. ;-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

0 + 0

He'll get twice as many tomorrow!!

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

Please don't get cocky. He could get one. You never know. It's damn dangerous out there for those Brit and Yank boys.

[KriegerGeist]

"Breaking"

A lot of "Breaking" is exactly what U.S. and U.K. pilots will have to do to those SA-3 missile sites.

If Iraq wants to have a pissing contest with the big boys on the block, Saddam better get a bigger bladder.

This military has not even showed Saddam our big guns yet, much less pulled those pistols from out holsters.

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

quite agree. in fact it will be "Operation Breaking Wind" once the US/UK start taking more of those sites out!

[AndrewC]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

That's exactly right, and that's why we need to hit this desert jackass right now. Things aren't getting any safer. Diplomacy is useless, the muslims regard it as a game where they get to rest and re-arm for their next sneak-attack. The Butcher of Baghdad needs to go down right now.

[zingzang]

What are they using to modify these missiles, bubble gum and bailing wire? Sounds more like propaganda fed to the media idiots by the Iraqui ministry of defense.

[MinuteGal]

The missile sites will be vaporized while their operators are still playing pinochle in the day-room. Clubs are trump!

Leni

[Tree of Liberty]

The Chinese have been updating Iraq's SAM sites for years. Most of the news has been about their new fiber-optic communication systems.

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

We can also thank Red China and their major telecom company which outfitted Iraq with fiber optics, which is the transmission system linking and supporting these various SA-3 and radar systems. Iraq has about 25 SA-3, but could have upgraded more or got a hold of more. The route could have been from Egypt to North Korea to Iraq or some other way.

[zingzang]

Okay, but is the Chinese technology superior to ours? If that may be the case, it still doesn't sound like they have sufficient nubmers to cause any major worries.

[anniegetyourgun]

And that's just prep work....

[Dan(9698)]

I was in a Nike Anti-aircraft missile unit in the fifties and sixties.

They were two stage missiles. The reason they went to the the one stage patriot is because the two stage Nikes were obsolete.

Having two stage missiles will not help.