CW Storage

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CW Storage

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Subject: CW Storage
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           There is no confirmed evidence that the Iraqis have 
prepositioned any chemical munitions.  There are 17 identified 
possible refrigerated [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]storage 
bunkers that could be used for chemical munitions storage.  In 
addition over 20 [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ] chemical warfare 
storage [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ] bunkers have been
identified.  However, there is no evidence that there are actually 
chemical munitions stored at these bunkers.  During the Iran-Iraq 
War, the Iraqis did not preposition chemical munitions, but 
shipped them directly from the production facility to the 
operational unit.  This was due to the extreme instability and 
short shelf-life of Iraqi unitary agents.  If the Iraqis have 
developed stable
binary agents [and the Iraqis have a binary agent development 
program], there would be a certain logic to prepositioning the 
binary munitions.  Nonetheless, there is neither firm evidence for 
Iraqi mass production of binary agents nor firm evidence for 
prepositioning of binary agents.

GROUND FORCES

           The Iraqis are capable of firing chemical weapons from 
a number of systems.  The FROG rocket system and SCUD B, Al 
Husayn, and Al Abbas surface-to-surface missiles are all capable 
of firing chemical munitions.  The Iraqis also possess artillery 
systems capable of firing chemical munitions.  By far the most 
numerous system is the 130mm M46 field gun with over 1,000 in the 
Iraqi
inventory; this gun and others assigned to artillery battalions 
typically are deployed in 18 gun battalions. Other artillery 
systems include:

SELF-PROPELLED GUNS       TOWED ARTILLERY    MULTIPLE ROCKET LCHRS 

2 x M110 HOW 203mm      5 x M115 HOW 8in      125 x BM-21 MRL-2
18 x M1O9 HOW 155mm     96 x  D-20 HOW 152mm  5 x BMD-20 (USSR)
34 x MlO9A1B HOW 155mm  18 x  M1976 GUN 152mm 54 x BM-13
60 x 253 HOW 152mm      1035 x M46 GUN 130mm  58 x RM-70 (CZ)
141 x 251 HOW 122mm     293 x D-30 HOW 122mm
                        135 x M30 HOW 122mm

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