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Iraqi space launch vehicle/ICBM based on clustering of Scud tactical missiles. Canadian rocket scientist Gerald Bull was allegedly killed by Israeli agents not for his work on the supergun, but rather for his much more damaging assistance to the Iraqis in doing the dynamic calculations for the Tamouz.

Launches: 1. Failures: 0. Success Rate: 100.00% pct. First Launch Date: 05 December 1989. Last Launch Date: 05 December 1989. Liftoff Thrust: 41,440 kgf. Total Mass: 37,695 kg. Core Diameter: 1.0 m. Total Length: 18.0 m.

• Stage Number: 0. 5 x R-17 Gross Mass: 5,385 kg. Empty Mass: 1,645 kg. Thrust (vac): 9,500 kgf. Isp: 251 sec. Burn time: 95 sec. Isp(sl): 219 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.8 m. Length: 7.4 m. Propellants: Nitric acid/Kerosene No Engines: 1. Isayev R-17

• Stage Number: 1. 1 x R-17 Gross Mass: 5,385 kg. Empty Mass: 1,645 kg. Thrust (vac): 9,500 kgf. Isp: 251 sec. Burn time: 95 sec. Isp(sl): 219 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.8 m. Length: 7.4 m. Propellants: Nitric acid/Kerosene No Engines: 1. Isayev R-17

• Stage Number: 2. 1 x R-17 Gross Mass: 5,385 kg. Empty Mass: 1,645 kg. Thrust (vac): 9,500 kgf. Isp: 251 sec. Burn time: 95 sec. Isp(sl): 219 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.8 m. Length: 7.4 m. Propellants: Nitric acid/Kerosene No Engines: 1. Isayev R-17

• Research and Development Flight

  Suborbital.

• Gerard Bull assassinated, ending the Tamouz and supergun projects.

  It is commonly thought that he was killed by the Israelis, concerned not so much by the supergun work but rather dynamics research Bull was doing to improve Iraqi ballistic missiles. Three weeks later British Customs seized the final eight sections of the Babylon Gun.

• 45 - Koelle, Heinz Hermann,, Handbook of Astronautical Engineering, McGraw-Hill,New York, 1961.