Weaponisation followed, with the manufacture of up to 200 chemical warheads for its Russian-supplied Scud-B and Scud-C missiles, as well as thousands of chemical free-fall bombs and artillery shells.

ECONOMIST: Syria and its chemical weapons

For example, as noted in the Center's Decision Brief of 15 September 1993 entitled Will the Senate Give Russia a Subsidy to Serve as the Radical Entente's 'Fed-Ex' Service? (No. 93-D 79), Russia's sizeable airlift fleet is being utilized to provide rapid, secure transport of North Korean extended-range Scud-C missiles to Syria.

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In the latter regard, it is hard to imagine a more blatant and contemptuous dismissal of U.S. concerns about Russian involvement in the transfer of missile technology (in direct contravention of the Missile Technology Control Regime and bilateral agreements with the United States) than the reported involvement of former Soviet air transport assets to deliver North Korean Scud-C missiles to Syria.

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