The Scud missile is a direct product of captured wartime German missile technology. Soviet experiments with the Nazi-developed V-2 missile led to a ten-year development effort that culminated in ...

The missile has since spawned more dangerous missiles—and even worse, missile research programs—in the hands of rogue states. While the Scud itself will eventually go away, its legacy will ...

Because it shattered the old paradigm of Israel’s wars – where Israel fought conventional battles, tank against tank, in the ...

You may remember Scud missiles from the first Iraq war in the early 1990s when Saddam Hussein's military fired them at coalition targets. This Soviet-made weapon is the same sort of vehicle ...

U.S. withholding its Syrian envoy over latest Scud missile shipment. JERUSALEM April 13, 2010— -- A Scud missile crisis is causing diplomatic tensions in the Middle East, already wracked by ...

We called it Scud-B, and eventually, all of the USSR's crappy Western Europe-themed missiles became known as Scuds. Newer versions were designed to hold nuclear and biological/chemical warheads.

Brian Palmer gives Robert Siegel a brief history of the Soviet-made missile and tells us why Middle Eastern dictators love the Scud. Palmer writes the Explainer column for Slate.com. World ...

From the 1960s to the 1980s, Scud missiles were shipped in large numbers to the Soviet Union’s international partners and recipients of military assistance: Around 1,000 missiles were sold to ...

A barrage of ballistic missiles that North Korea test-fired over the weekend may have included a new type of Scud missile with an extended range and improved accuracy that poses a threat to Japan ...