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From: rutenbrg@phoenix.princeton.edu (Andrew David Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: hardware questions about Gulf War
Keywords: SCUD, cruise missile, munitions, aircraft survivability
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Date: 19 Jan 91 04:17:22 GMT
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From: rutenbrg@phoenix.princeton.edu (Andrew David Rutenberg)

Some questions:

What is the relaunch rate of a mobile SCUD launcher?  How many missiles
are deployed with each mobile launcher typically?

What is the conventional payload size of a sea-launched cruise missile?
Accuracy?

Which munitions produce red, green, blue, other coloured explosions - or
does this depend more upon the target?

How many rounds of small arms fire (small calibre AA) ON AVERAGE can a
US fighter (F-18, or F-15) soak up before being forced down?  (order
of magnitude estimate)

Is it likely that the Iraqis can deploy chemical weapons by artillery,
and if they did very lightly could they disrupt our lines without risk 
to themselves by shifting winds (i.e. scare us, rather than trying to 
be methodical)?  Would this ability be widespread?

Thanks.   Andrew Rutenberg (Rutenbrg@phoenix.princeton.edu,
rutenbrg@pucc.bitnet).
.