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North Korean Missile shot off today could reach the USA.
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Quote from: dodo on Today at 11:01 AM
Please excuse the novice question, but an article today in CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/03/asia/north-korea-missile-japan-waters/index.html
claims figures of 930 Km range and 2500 Km altitude... aren't these numbers swapped?
The article keeps speaking of altitudes in the few thousand Km, which seems odd, and I wondered if it's constantly confusing range and altitude figures.
According to Wikipedia ("Flight phases"), a typical ICBM would reach an apogee of 1200 Km (which is 12 times over the Karman line, and still seems pretty high to me).
Numbers are correct - missiles are sometimes launched on lofted trajectory in order not to openly announce their range for diplomatic reasons
In this case (Hwasong-14) estimated max range puts in into ICBM category
Posted by: 3dc 2017-07-04 |
