North Korea unveils nuclear-powered submarine for the first time

The new vid is a mish-mash of pics of the new frigate/destroyer thats under construction but theres also a few images of what does look to be a large new submarine hull as well.
Very interesting:D
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T. A. Gardner said:
A "Mobile Chernobyl" no doubt! :D
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Why do you assume that North Koreans aren't competent in what they doing, considering that they have all modern computer technology & digital engineering tools to work on their first reactor? Don't forget, we are talking about a country that have better ICBM's than USA even plans to have in future ;)
 
Dilandu said:
Why do you assume that North Koreans aren't competent in what they doing, considering that they have all modern computer technology & digital engineering tools to work on their first reactor? Don't forget, we are talking about a country that have better ICBM's than USA even plans to have in future ;)
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Because history...?
 
As with any new DPRK weapons systems, there is a lot of western cope so it's just waste of time to engage with such really. The unusually long sail as pointed by some might be for housing large SLBMs, since 8700 tons is still fairly small for a SSBN. It also seems as far as building goes the sub has yet to receive the black anechoic tiles.
 
lancer21 said:
As with any new DPRK weapons systems, there is a lot of western cope so it's just waste of time to engage with such really. The unusually long sail as pointed by some might be for housing large SLBMs, since 8700 tons is still fairly small for a SSBN. It also seems as far as building goes the sub has yet to receive the black anechoic tiles.
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Interesting that the sub looks a bit like US early design for Polaris-carrying submarines (with the massive missile house behind the sail).
 
Dilandu said:
Interesting that the sub looks a bit like US early design for Polaris-carrying submarines (with the massive missile house behind the sail).
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Well, they do have about 15ft/5m worth of missile tube sticking out of the top of the pressure hull.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Well, they do have about 15ft/5m worth of missile tube sticking out of the top of the pressure hull.
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I suppose, two reasons:

* Building large-diameter pressure hull is not easy, and this size was probably the maximum, North Korean engineers could rely on;
* North Korean submarine-launched missiles have much greater range demands than early SLBM's of other countries (because they need to be able to reach US territory even when fired from home waters);
 
When I saw the art and photo of the sub, I was reminded of the old Soviet Golf II class (where the missiles were also launched from the extended sail).
 
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