Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military
From: smulgund@set.princeton.edu (Sandeep Shriram Mulgund)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Speed of SCUDs
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.021058.21700@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 02:10:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.041012.5124@cbnews.att.com>
Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker)
Organization: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Lines: 14
Approved: military@att.att.com



From: smulgund@set.princeton.edu (Sandeep Shriram Mulgund)

In article <1991Jan21.041012.5124@cbnews.att.com> dkrause@orion.oac.uci.edu (Doug Krause) writes:
>
>I read in the paper that the Iraqi modified SCUDs (Al-Hussein and
>Al-Abbass?) have a speed of Mach 5.  This seems excessive since
>our Patriot system is supposed to "only" go Mach 3.  Does anybody
>have the correct speed on these two missiles?


I think you've got it right.  These are the speeds I've heard quoted on
TV and read in the papers.