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From: ldoering@caen.engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Iraqi Frog missiles
Summary: *Not* accurate
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.065929.9798@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 06:59:29 GMT
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From: ldoering@caen.engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
In article <1991Feb5.041354.4777@cbnews.att.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes:
>
>  FROG-7 is probably not very accurate, with a probable error of between
>  350m and 750m depending on the range.  During the Yom Kippur War, 20
>  FROG-7 rockets were fired by the Syrians at an airfield 55 Km away.
>  The rockets fell within an 8km X 5Km circle - all missing the airfield.
>
Yup.  In 1978, I spent the summer on Kibbutz G'vat, about 3 km from
the airfield in question (the Israeli airbase at Ramat David.)  Residents
of the kibbutz told me that one of the FROGs actually did land within
the boundary of the airbase, but didn't cause any damage.  Most of the
other missiles landed in cotton fields or orchards.  Two hit the nearby
town of Migdal Ha'Emek, 5 km from the base.  Another missed the dining
hall at Kibbutz G'vat by about 100 feet, damaging the building and blowing
out windows all over the kibbutz.  When I was there, you could still see
where the FROG had landed - they'd filled in the crater, but 5 years later
the kibbutzniks still hadn't gotten around to replacing the sidewalks
where the crater had been.

- Larry