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887:) was established to assure the dismantling of the Iraqi missile program. They were only allowed to purchase or produce missiles with a range no longer than 150 km. At the end of the war, the Iraqi government declared it had only 61 al-Husayn and other ballistic missiles in its arsenal. These weapons were destroyed under UNSCOM supervision. This process was completed by July 1991. However, the western powers were suspicious that the Iraqi army may have hidden as many as 200 missiles. The Iraqis took advantage of the provisions of the ceasefire by developing two types of short-range ballistic missiles, the 1496: 1675: 1565: 493: 361: 1645: 1600: 1535: 1524: 31: 402:
By 1989, a second army Brigade was formed, the 223, equipped with 4 locally developed trailer launchers, known as the Al-Nida, which included azimuth identification systems (AzID) for targeting. There were also a second indigenous launcher, the Al-Waleed, but it apparently never became operational.
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Only 10 of the 46 al-Husayn launched at Saudi Arabia caused significant damage: two strikes on US military bases (including the army barracks at Dhahran), one on a Saudi government building, and the remaining seven on civilian facilities. The following is a detailed list of these attacks:
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became the usual targets. Their poor accuracy, while mostly ineffective to conduct a major strategic campaign, made them basically weapons of terror, forcing thousands of refugees out of the main Iranian cities. This exchange of ballistic missiles was indeed known as
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artillery trucks to fit them for the longer local-built missiles. The unit responsible for the maintenance and operation of the new missiles was initially the 224 Brigade, already established since 1976 to deal with the R-17 Scuds imported from the
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The threat posed by the al-Husayn and other Scud missiles forced the coalition air forces to divert 40% of their missions to hunt the launchers along with their support vehicles and supplies. The ground war was postponed one week for this reason.
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had initiated project 1728 for indigenous Scud engine development and production. The range was extended by reducing the original 945 kg warhead to 500 kg and increasing the propellant capacity. The warhead carried
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The failure of the Patriot system in tracking the Iraqi missile over Dhahran was due to a shift in the range gate of the radar, due to the continuous use of the software for more than 100 hours without resetting.
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The origins of the al-Husayn could be traced back to the first stages of the war with Iran. Iraq was the first belligerent to use long range artillery rockets during the Iran–Iraq War, firing limited numbers of
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According to Iranian sources, the fuselage and warhead were prone to break into fragments while re-entering the atmosphere. This phenomenon later was an advantage as a counter-measure against the
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inspectors reports, the Iraqis were able to produce all the major components of the system by 1991. The al-Husayn was 12.46 meters long and had a diameter of 0.88 meters. The guidance was
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area. Although thousands of houses and apartments were damaged by the strikes, only two people died directly as consequence of the impacts. Another 12 died from indirect causes (
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Besides the American soldiers, Saudi authorities reported one security guard killed and about 70 civilians injured as result of the missile strikes.
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The first development, called al-Husayn, with a range of 400 miles, allowed the Iraqi army to attack deep inside the Iranian boundaries. The
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Iraq, which also deployed the Scud-B, was conversely unable to strike the main Iranian industrial centers, including the capital,
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Thirty-eight of the 42 missiles aimed at Israel landed within the boundaries of that country; the other four fell on the
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Up to 200 missiles were launched against Iran between 1987 and 1988, killing some 2,000 people. Tehran,
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Aftermath of the Al-Hussein strike on US Army barracks at Dhahran, 25 February 1991
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The greatest tactical achievement of the al-Husayn was the destruction of a
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Under the terms of the ceasefire of March 1991, corroborated by the
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Its flight time was of about eight minutes for the maximum range.
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of 1,000 meters, and the missile launch weight was 6,400 kg.
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The Iraqis also extended the launch rail of 11 Soviet-produced
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raised by the American administration against Saddam Hussein.
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The missile fuel was common to every tactical missile of the
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al-Husayn missiles displayed in their erector-launchers.
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Index


SRBM
Iraq
liquid propelled
Inertial
MAZ
Arabic
romanized
short-range ballistic missile
Ba'athist Iraq
Scud missile
Iraqi Army
Iran–Iraq War
Persian Gulf War
FROG-7s
Dezful
Ahvaz
Libya
Sulaymaniya
Kirkuk
Baghdad
Tehran
Taji
Iraqis
HE
chemical
biological
nuclear
UN
inertial

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