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2 unusual facts about Scud: The Disposable Assassin


Ed Clayton

He first published work with the Milwaukee based publisher Fireman Press, home of cult hit Scud: The Disposable Assassin, where Ed Clayton took over the art duties on the Scud spin-off comic, La Cosa Nostroid.

Scud: The Disposable Assassin

Each issue is created by a different creative team, including artists such as Trent Kaniuga (Creed), Jim Mahfood (Clerks), and Doug TenNapel (creator of Earthworm Jim).


10th Air Base Wing

The wing’s A-10s played an important part in the air phase of the Gulf War, attacking tanks, Scud missiles, and other ground positions.

152d Airlift Wing

Later, the RF-4Cs were repeated diverted from other photographic missions to go and look for Scud launchers hiding in western Iraq.

Abbott-Baynes Scud 1

At the time of its first flight in 1931 it was referred to as the Brant Scud because the first prototype was built by Brant Aircraft Ltd. of Croydon.

Abbott-Baynes Scud 2

At least 5 Scud 2 were built, including one completed by Slingsby Aviation.

CIA activities in Libya

:*After disclosing its Scud stockpile and extensive ballistic and cruise missile R&D efforts in 2003, Libya took important steps to abide by its commitment to limit its missiles to the 300-km range threshold of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).

Combined Task Force 150

The ship from North Korea was carrying a cargo of 15 Scud missiles, 15 conventional warheads with 250 kg of high explosive, 23 fuel tanks of nitric acid and 85 drums of chemicals.

Conflict: Desert Storm

From there, the squad carries out various missions, such as rescuing the Emir of Kuwait, engaging Iraqi forces in the Battle of Khafji, destroying Iraqi SCUD missile systems, rescuing prisoners of war from Baghdad, and leading an advance element of U.S. cavalry in a fight with the Tawalkana Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

At the ending credits, a Delta Force soldier rides a Scud missile, alluding to Dr. Strangelove.

Eugene Porterfield

In 1991, during the Gulf War, on a base in Kuwait housing the regiment in which he served in the U.S. Army Reserves, the 14th Quartermaster Detachment, was struck by an enemy SCUD missile, killing 13 soldiers belonging to the detachment.

Hamuchtar

Accompanied by an accordionist, he toured Israel amidst scud rocket attacks and re-introduced chansons and burlesque to Bauhaus Tel-Aviv.

Hwaseong

Hwasong-5, North Korean version of the Scud ballistic missile

Hwasong-6, also a North Korean version of the Scud ballistic missile

Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar

During the Persian Gulf War it managed to score a few positive publicity notes for detecting early launches of Iraqi Scud missile attacks; years later, a USAF assessment would emerge revealing that oversights at the base were partly responsible for one of the worst disasters for Coalition forces during the war, on 26 February 1991 when an Iraqi Scud missile broke up above Dhahran and fell into a warehouse housing U.S. soldiers, killing 28 and injuring more than 100.

L. E. Baynes

In 1930, Baynes designed the Scud light sailplane, built at first by Brant Aircraft Limited at Croydon.

Libya and weapons of mass destruction

Libyan Army forces loyal to Gaddafi reportedly fired several Scud-B surface-to-surface missiles at areas in revolt against the regime, including Misrata and Ajdabiya, during the Libyan civil war, but the weapons missed their targets.

Liquid-propellant rocket

nitric acid 73% with dinitrogen tetroxide 27% (=AK27) and kerosene/gasoline mixture (=TM-185) – various Russian (USSR) cold-war ballistic missiles (R-12, Scud-B,-D), Iran: Shahab-5, North Korea: Taepodong-2

Myrtle Beach Air Force Base

During Operation Desert Storm, aircraft assigned to the 354th initially flew against early-warning radar and Scud missile sites, as well as search-and-rescue missions of downed coalition pilots.

Sefton Henry Parry

It was opened on 6 October 1866 with Dion Boucicault's drama The Flying Scud which, with a real horse and George Belmore as Nat Gosling the old jockey, was a great success.


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