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To: Doug R who wrote (4296)	3/28/2003 12:18:08 AM
From: Brumar89	of 21614

There are different types of SAM's - not all are the small shoulder-fired Stinger or Strela type used against low-flying aircraft. Most SAM's designed for high-altitude aircraft (which is what we're using) have fragmentation warheads designed to explode whenever they get within a certain distance of their target and send out a wide pattern of fragmention particles. Here's a link on Russian SAM missiles: aeronautics.ru I don't know exactly what SAM's Iraq has but I do know they are Russian. SA-1 GUILD (R-113, S-25, V-300 Berkut) weight 3,500kg warhead 250kg HE fragmentation length 12m diameter 71cm fin span tail span speed max range/max altitude 32-40km That one sounds like it would make a nice big explosion.

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