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The U.S. also sent Patriot antimissile batteries that year to Israel to defend the country from the Scud missile attacks then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had ordered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The Iskander, a mobile ballistic missile system codenamed SS-26 Stone by NATO, replaced the Soviet Scud missile.

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2022

DeTroy likened the accusations as an indiscriminate Scud missile attack that rewrote the adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword."

From US News • Jul. 23, 2015

Diplomats raised questions in the spring of 2009, for example, about planned purchases from North Korea of rocket-propelled launchers by Sri Lanka and Scud missile launchers by Yemen, apparently to no avail.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2010

Something similar was done on Compuserve during the Gulf War, by subscribers who where in Israel and were able to describe Scud missile attacks without censorship.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd