Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of what empowers Saddam is technology. Advanced weaponry can be a great equalizer. Iraq is a Third World country that was well on its way to acquiring a First World arsenal...
Iraq's artillery is modern and highly capable. Among other things, its arsenal includes hundreds of South African G-5s, probably the best field guns in the world, with a range of more than 20 miles. The artillery force has serious weaknesses, though. First, Iraq has no spotter planes in the air, and its artillerymen will be unable to shoot at anything they cannot see in front of them. Second, almost all the Iraqi guns have to be towed around by trucks. That means they can be pinpointed by allied artillery and aircraft, and the huge quantities of shells piled...
...1970s, own a convenience store at the intersection of Seven Mile and Van Dyke roads, an easy rifle shot from streets lined with abandoned houses and open-air drug markets. To look at their tidy store, swaddled in bulletproof glass, surrounded by surveillance cameras and equipped with a small arsenal in back, one would think they too were in the middle...
...years, American military hardware has been the butt of bitter jokes, taxpayer complaints and congressional investigations. To judge by the cost overruns and testing mishaps, the U.S. arsenal seemed to consist of planes that spun out of control, tanks too cumbersome to maneuver and spare parts with Tiffany price tags. What a difference a war makes. Now that U.S. Patriots are chasing down Scuds and laser-guided bombs are nailing targets in Iraq, the once derided weaponry has become the star of the war. Suddenly, everybody is a weapons buff...
...outside Iraq knows for certain how many Scuds Saddam Hussein had in his arsenal before war broke out last week. Estimates run between 500 and 800. Baghdad possessed as many as 32 fixed launchers in silos and at least 36 mobile ones mounted on huge eight-wheel trucks. After the first air raids, most fixed launchers were destroyed, but some 15 mobile Scuds survived. It takes about five hours to prepare a Scud...