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From: quan@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Suu Quan)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Speed of SCUDs
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Date: 24 Jan 91 04:15:19 GMT
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From: quan@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Suu Quan)

/ hpcc01:sci.military / dkrause@orion.oac.uci.edu (Doug Krause) /  8:10 pm  Jan 20, 1991 /

>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?
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What I heard from the TV news: 
Al-Hussein SCUD : 3000 miles per hour
Patriot: 2,000 miles per hour.