The Scud missile is a direct product of captured wartime German missile technology. Soviet experiments with the Nazi-developed V-2 missile led to a ten-year development effort that culminated in ...

As Afghanistan descended into Civil War during the late 1980s and early 1990s, thousands of SCUDs were used to combat ...

The missile has since spawned more dangerous missiles—and even worse, missile research programs—in the hands of rogue states. While the Scud itself will eventually go away, its legacy will ...

We called it Scud-B, and eventually, all of the USSR's crappy Western Europe-themed missiles became known as Scuds. Newer versions were designed to hold nuclear and biological/chemical warheads.

U.S. withholding its Syrian envoy over latest Scud missile shipment. JERUSALEM April 13, 2010— -- A Scud missile crisis is causing diplomatic tensions in the Middle East, already wracked by ...

Brian Palmer gives Robert Siegel a brief history of the Soviet-made missile and tells us why Middle Eastern dictators love the Scud. Palmer writes the Explainer column for Slate.com. Accessibility ...

The Patriot missile batteries – hailed as the technological star of our Persian Gulf victory – may or may not have stopped incoming Scud warheads. Hold on, now – how can that be? We saw with ...

You may remember Scud missiles from the first Iraq war in the early 1990s when Saddam Hussein's military fired them at coalition targets. This Soviet-made weapon is the same sort of vehicle, but ...

A barrage of ballistic missiles that North Korea test-fired over the weekend may have included a new type of Scud missile with an extended range and improved accuracy that poses a threat to Japan, ...

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Scud missile fired into its territory by Houthi rebels in Yemen, while a Saudi official acknowledged sending forces into northern Yemen to stop border attacks.