Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: just how mobile are scud mobile launchers? Message-ID: <1991Jan19.042753.5935@cbnews.att.com> Date: 19 Jan 91 04:27:53 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Edward Vielmetti I am curious as to just what kind of a thing the mobile SCUD missile launcher platforms are. That is to say, whether the apparatus is roughly pickup truck sized, semi tractor-trailer sized, or what, how readily it can be moved and at what speed, and a sense of how easy it would be to "hide one in a residential area" as I think I heard a US media report suggest. It would seem to me that these mobile targets might be quite easy to hide and hard to hit, and thus there could be a lot more scuds fired before the war is out. A decidedly scary thought. --Ed emv@msen.com