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| ROK Unveils New Missiles | |
| 2012-04-21 | |
South Korea on Thursday unveiled two new missiles capable of hitting targets anywhere in North Korea.
The military had kept the existence of the missiles a top secret but decided to unveil them to ease public jitters after Pyongyang's latest threats to strike Seoul. Major General Shin Won-sik told reporters the cruise missiles are "capable of striking targets anywhere in North Korea." The Hyunmu-3 is said to be more accurate than the U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile with a range of between 1,300 km to 2,500 km. It can be launched from both ground-based mobile platforms and Aegis-class destroyers and submarines. The Hyunmu-2 ballistic missile's range is restricted to 300 km due to a treaty with the U.S. that limits the reach of South Korea's missiles, but could apparently travel up to 500 km. It can hit targets with 30 m accuracy. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 DEFENCE.PK/FORUM > NORTH KOREA THREATRENS TO "BLOW UP SEOUL" | NORTH KOREA WARNS OF WAR AS SEOUL UNVEILS NEW MISSLE. versus * SAME > FAMINE SPREAD IN NORTH KOREA. 20,000 DEAD IN SINGLE PROVINCE [South Hwanghe]THIS YEAR, since Big Daddy's Jong-Il's passing last December. And its a MAJOR NK RICE-PRODUCING PROVINCE TOO! SHADE OF "STAR TREK":TOS' CAPT. JAMES T. KIRK > KLINGON-POISONED TRIBBLES = "IN A [Starbase] STORAGE BIN FULL OF [tasy]GRAIN, THEY STARVE TO DEATH"!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-04-21 23:00 |
| #6 Let's just say for a lot of the interesting targets within 1500 km that won't make a whole lot of difference. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-21 16:26 |
| #5 Thing. Given the geography of the region, ROK ought not keep anything in Seoul, including Seoul. It's an interesting starting point for your exercise, but someplace in the mountains a bit further south might be safer from a commando raid by sleepers or something, or being destroyed by Nork's ten thousand gun tubes and rocket launchers in the first three minutes. For grins, look up "redleg rumba". That rate of fire is too fast for sustained fire, but if you want steel on target and don't care about the barrel, you could put a lot of bad on a target the size of a city--which means you don't have to check and if necessary redeflect and elevate--in a couple of minutes. Ten thousand of them.... |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2012-04-21 16:19 |
| #4 Oh, and in a side note, I found this handy chart: Distance Calculator: How Far Is It From Seoul... Vladivostok is farther than any location in S. Korea, and still only uses half the Hyunmu-3's range. This missile's range is almost far enough to reach Mongolia. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-21 12:54 |
| #3 Thanks to its missile and nuclear proliferation to its proxies, China gets another neighbor arming itself with missiles. |
| Posted by: john frum 2012-04-21 12:46 |
| #2 Well, it's not as if the launch were successful. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-21 11:51 |
| #1 As per WORLD NEWS + TOPIX , Jong-un = DPRK may be secretly stashing a second Space Rocket??? Also, SAMe > US ANALYSTS = believe that the DPRK's Missle Launchers don't work, which has led a number of MilBloggers to ask how, iff true, whose "Space Rocket" [Iran? Al-Qaeda? Other?]did the DPRK launch as its own. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-04-21 00:25 |