File photo of a US soldier, right, and Saudi police officers examine the wreck of a missile, believed to be a Soviet-made Scud, which landed in downtown Riyadh in January 1991 when Iraq launched a missile attack on the Saudi capital.
File photo of a US soldier, right, and Saudi police officers examine the wreck of a missile, believed to be a Soviet-made Scud, which landed in downtown Riyadh in January 1991 when Iraq launched a missile attack on the Saudi capital.
File photo of a US soldier, right, and Saudi police officers examine the wreck of a missile, believed to be a Soviet-made Scud, which landed in downtown Riyadh in January 1991 when Iraq launched a missile attack on the Saudi capital.
File photo of a US soldier, right, and Saudi police officers examine the wreck of a missile, believed to be a Soviet-made Scud, which landed in downtown Riyadh in January 1991 when Iraq launched a mis

How far can Yemen’s Scud missiles go? - graphic


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It remains unknown how many Scud missiles Houthi forces currently have in their arsenal but Yemen’s military was believed to have had 300 Scud missiles when the conflict began - most of which fell under control of Houthi rebels and forces allied with former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.