Monday December 5, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

Syria has added a new, vastly improved, Scud Missile to their arsenal.
It is called the Scud-D.

Scud Missiles were used by Nazi Germany and were called V-1 and V-2.
Saddam Hussein chose the Scud Missile as his attack weapon on Israel and Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War.
Now Syria is using the Scud-D.

How do I know?
The information was just unclassified.
A few months ago a Syrian Scud-D went off course and landed in Turkey. Syria apologized hoping that Turkey would keep the incident quiet. They kept it quiet from the press, but not from intelligence gatherers.

The Scud-D is a frighteningly powerful missile.
The range of the new missile is 500 miles, the range of the Scud-B is 200 miles.
The warhead on this Scud "separates" from the body making it much more difficult to shoot down, much more accurate, much smaller and much faster.
Upon separation it uses smalls fins, making it harder to retaliate and hit.
The course of the Scud can be changed and corrected on the way to its target.

The technology of war is vastly and rapidly improving in the Arab world.
The Syrian Scud-D Missile coupled with new Iranian satellite technology should seriously worry America and her allies.

This type of technology is there primarily to present more dangers to the West.

We must shut them down.