On Feb 13, 8:18*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
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I wonder if they got hold of an actual Scud and used that?


Yes. The US got a bunch of Scuds from, IIRC, Romania (or Hungary??)
after the Cold War and has been using them for ABM targets. Scuds
burn for 95 seconds at most, so the "something less than two minutes"
should be interpreted loosely.