North Korea’s long-range missile test signals its improved, potential capability to attack US

Missile flew 86 minutes and over 7000 kilometers in altitude, perhaps 7700 kilometers.
At minimum energy trajectory it could deliver payload anywhere on this planet.
Possible of it being derivative of Hwasong-18 road mobile solid fuel ICBM.
If so difference probably being 2nd and 3rd stage same diameter as 1st.
Or 2nd stage same diameter as 1st while there no being 3rd stage.
If not HS-18 derivative then ever greater diameter solid fuel engine, beyond 2 meters.
 
BullpupRafale said:
Article rife with supposed "experts" on pure copium at dangerous for mind dosage.
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Well, actually the North Korean missile may very well be the world strongest land ICBM at this moment - it's at least semi-mobile, it's solid-fueled and apparently it's quite larger than usual road-mobile missile (so its payload may be quite significant)
 
Dilandu said:
Well, actually the North Korean missile may very well be the world strongest land ICBM at this moment - it's at least semi-mobile, it's solid-fueled and apparently it's quite larger than usual road-mobile missile (so its payload may be quite significant)
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Issue I find with article is it's content being doubts about this system.
Such as fallacy about need to demonstrate re-entry is desperate.
Chinese if I remember correctly were successful on their first test.
Heavier payload capacity means reentry shield can be made thicker.
Not ideal, but at least simplest way of increasing success probability.
Though primary reason for Hwasong-19 is multiple warheads. MIRV.
 
BullpupRafale said:
Though primary reason for Hwasong-19 is multiple warheads. MIRV.
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Or at least multiple decoys. I rather doubt that North Korea would have much interest in MIRV - their warheads supply most likely not great, and from the "guaranteed retaliation" point of view it make more sence to disprese the warheads, not to concentrate them.
 
Dilandu said:
Or at least multiple decoys. I rather doubt that North Korea would have much interest in MIRV - their warheads supply most likely not great, and from the "guaranteed retaliation" point of view it make more sence to disprese the warheads, not to concentrate them.
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I sort of agree though best decoys behave exactly like actual warheads including MIRV's.
North Korea is expanding capability to enrich uranium with more efficient centrifuges.
Expectation is that DPRK will maintain arsenal of up to 300 nuclear warheads at most.
That is almost as much as Pakistan and India combined in that regard,
 

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