At the start of the war and you're the defending side Would

They did try it.

>>33599764
Did they use Arty or ICBMs?

how did it turn out?

Any other instances?

>>33599805
>Iraq
>ICBM

Nigga.

What makes you say "why didn't the Iraqis try it" rather than "did the Iraqis try it"

>>33599805
Yeah, all those ICBM's that Iraq has.

>>33599841
because the iraqis were steamrolled before they could even get their shit together?

>>33599839
Or just any other missile? please enlighten an ignorant

>>33599852
>>33599805
How the fuck has the word "SCUD" not entered your head yet

>>33599882
oh, right, so, how did it turn out?

Hit the supply lines

>>33599718

Iraq did not have the technology, communications, or trained manpower to pull it off.

You need to be in range with your artillery to hit the enemy staging area. US main staging areas were extremely far from any possibility of this.

Forward US areas were covered with absolute dominate air power which would find, and totally and completely wreck any kind of mass dedicated artillery position. In addition to this, US ground forces were moving so quickly that Iraqis didn't have much time to sit around reconing US staging areas for ordnance fire, and Iraqis definitely didn't have stuff like laser range finders and GPS to give to their ground soldiers.

The best Iraqis could do is haphazardly shoot'n' scoot smaller, mobile weapons and then run them back into urban centers. Minimal damage inflicted by those weapons, and a chance of getting massively wrecked by the US every time they tried.

In 2017, mobile anti-munitions systems means that haphazard artillery is just going to get shot down. You need massive amounts of artillery or air power to effect damage, and that only happens when you control the airspace.

>>33599899
well just for starters, iraqi regulars got slamfucked by apaches and CAS.

then you have the total shitfucking the republican guard got, and on top of that the nightly f-111 tank plink raids with LGBs hitting just about anything they can find, and f-15e packages choke raping scuds.

overall i'd say they got fucked up bretty guud

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>>33599899

>>33599905
Might have had an effect back in the day, but Iraqi regulars couldn't have possibly done anything significant enough to have a large effect. Plus everyone here seems to be forgetting that intel is a gigantic part of doing any of this, and Iraq didn't have much high or low tech intel collection to tell them where targets were anyway.

Modern era, the idea of hitting supply lines inside a combat zone is antiquated. A decade of asymmetric warfare means the US or any western nation will have supply convoys carrying as much firepower as a combat arms convoy.

>>33599718
Because the US beat them to punch thanks to overwhelming air supremacy. A lot of the opening airstrikes were focused on damaging their ability to mobilize troops quickly and efficiently.

>>33599852
Google "What is a Scud" youngling.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/26/world/war-in-the-gulf-scud-attack-scud-missile-hits-a-us-barracks-killing-27.html

there was another attack on a US command post in GW1 that was intercepted by patriot

and one that hit a brigade TOC in 2003 and somehow didn't kill anyone IIRC