Iraq possessed about 250 imported Scud-type missiles prior to the Gulf War and was also able to manufacture the missiles domestically. It developed different versions, but has mostly used the al ...

Scud missiles are not very accurate and have a range of 150-400 miles. The Syrian use of Scud missiles is a dangerous escalation by the Bashar Assad regime in its increasingly desperate effort to ...

In an escalation of its civil war, Syria is firing more Scud missiles in a desperate attempt to quash rebel gains, the NATO chief said Friday. The government has launched more missiles in recent ...

Filmed with a mobile phone (oriented vertically), the following amateur footage shows a Scud missile fired at rebels by Syrian forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad. Although the authenticity of the ...

The thing about Scud missiles is that they're not a precision weapon. Their accuracy is measured in the thousands of feet. So just by firing it at civilians, you show you don't really care where ...

A scud cloud doesn't rotate. At times, you can see it's very slow progression upward, but you will never see the rapid rotation detected with a funnel cloud or tornado.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — In a potentially major escalation of the months-long war, Yemeni Houthi rebels fired a Scud missile into Saudi Arabia early Saturday, in apparent retaliation for more than ...

Scud can be differentiated visually from a tornado in many ways if you notice some factors. Scud does not rotate but rather gets dragged along in slow motion from the cloud base.