Al-Samoud 2

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Al Samoud
CEP[1]
Launch
platform
Mobile launcher

Al-Samoud (الصمود, alternately Al-Samed, which means steadfastness in Arabic)

solid-fuel rocket version known as Ababil-100
.

Development

The missile was essentially a scaled-down

UNSCOM.[3] The production started in 2001, and the goal was the assembly of ten missiles each month. The Al Samoud 2 was not fully operational by 2003, but some of them had been already delivered to the Iraqi army.[citation needed
]

Engine

The rocket engine evolved from the S-75 Dvina design and the thrust vector controls from the Scud. The system also included an Iraqi-designed mobile launcher similar to the Al-Nida, built for the missile

Al Hussein,[4] produced by the Iraqi company Al-Fida.[5]

Payload

The missile carried a 280 kilogram warhead that was half high explosives and half protective steel shell. The explosive charge weighed 140 kg, made of a mixture of 84 kg of

bomblets.[citation needed
]

Guidance

The guidance package was assembled by

GPS guidance systems illegally imported from Belarus, but these allegations have not been confirmed.[citation needed
]

Banned by the UN

A test-launch of an Al Samoud, circa 1997

On February 13, 2003, a

UNSCR 1441. The limit allowed by the UN is 150 km.[citation needed
]

Iraq agreed to destroy the Al-Samoud 2 long range missiles, and by mid-March 2003, a number had been destroyed. Although

UNMOVIC ordered to stop its production, Iraq assembled some 20 missiles during the early months of 2003.[citation needed
]

American forces found a cache of 12 Al Samoud missiles south of

Baiji on July 21, 2003.[citation needed
]

Operational history (March–April 2003)

Aftermath of the Iraqi missile attack on 7 April
See also: Ababil-100

A number of Al-Samoud 2 missiles were fired at Kuwait during the 2003 conflict.[6] One of them, aimed at the Coalition Headquarters at Camp Doha, was successfully intercepted by a Patriot missile on March 27. Some debris hit buildings inside the US base.[7] The other missiles were also shot down or landed harmlessly in the desert.

A similar development, the Al-Fahd or Ababil-100, a

US 3rd Infantry Division, were struck south of Baghdad by a missile of this kind on April 7. Three soldiers and two foreign reporters were killed in the blast.[8][9][10][11][12]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Al-Samoud 2.

References

  1. ^ a b "GIS SPecial Topical Studies:Iraq war 2003". ISSA Special Reports. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-7603-1592-2
  3. ^ Iraq's missile programs Archived 2015-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Cordesman, Anthony (2003). The Great Iraqi Missile Mystery: The Military Importance of the Ababil, Al Samoud II, Al Fatah, Badr 2000, and Al Huysayn Archived 2010-02-09 at the Wayback Machine. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 25 February 2003
  5. ^ Unmovic - IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq, 19 February 2003
  6. Frog-7
    :
  7. ^ www.cnn.com/2003
  8. ^ Zucchino, David: Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. Grove Press, 2004, page 162.
  9. ^ "He (Lt. Col. Wesley, second in command) had gotten only thirty feet from his vehicle when a powerful Abril (sic) missile hit it dead center." Lacey, Jim:Takedown: the 3rd Infantry Division's twenty-one day assault on Baghdad. Naval Institute Press, 2007, page 243.
    ISBN 1-59114-458-2
  10. ^ Iraqi missile hits Army base, By Steven Lee Myers. The New York Times, 04/07/2003.
  11. ^ Nach ersten Erkenntnissen soll es sich um eine irakische Boden-Boden-Rakete vom Typ Ababil-100 mit einer Reichweite von 130 Kilometern handeln. Focus magazine, 14 April 2003, report by Gudrun Dometeit (in German)
  12. ISBN 978-0-8330-4192-0
    .
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