For which you'll be much better off launching multiple missile for equivalent combined warhead mass. A single missile loaded with 20 tons of submunition is such an ineffective system. NK has much more adequate systems in service for that purpose, a lot of which were newly introduced in recent years.
Obviously not, but importance of individual leaders/state actors are vastly different between a democracy and a dictatorship regime. They are hence treated wildy differently in IR studies in predicting state actions and consequences.
RoK foreign relations with Russia aren't even remotely as hostile as what western media wants to depict. Russia has been regularly sending signals that they want to reinstate and improve their relationship with SK, even this year.
Fair point. One of the major Russian design bureaus helped out with one of the K-SAM designs, too.
https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/277/0005551529
Hell, I'd have pushed for not-quite-hypersonic as acceptable. Mach 4.5 means a fast enough missile, right? Is ~1.5km/s good enough?
I'd wondered if this was related to something military even though they said it was for a space launcher.
S. Korea must be reading my military wish list. I mean their conventional ballistic missile arsenal are all just no brainer common sense systems we should already have in the hundreds.
Yes, that's on the 239mm rocket, the L-PGW300 is 4 deployed on CTM-290 600mm rocket.
they're try to equalize the deterrence factor with north korea's nuclear capability with conventional firepower aka we can blow you up the same way you can to us minus the radioactive fallout
Ah, another good article by Decker Everleth. He had a work about Korean missile bases before as well. One thing to note is that those hardened launch sites are not isolated, but located within the bigger missile base facility. Another thing to note is that KTSSM-II is a mobile version.
I don't really understand why you'd think that way. Preemptive strike has become and stayed central to South Korean OpPlan for quite some time by now. If anything, as North Korean nuclear arsenal advances, and as there are no signs of denuclearization nor are North Koreans claiming that they will not use their nuclear arsenal for preemptive strike, it only makes more sense every day for South Korea to preemptively strike and decapitate North Korean regime.
Its not the preemptive strike concept,or should I say "proactive response",that seems a bit silly,tho firing first on a nuclear armed neighbor does seem a little...,well,...reckless.Its the fact that these proactive response weapons have been emplaced in soft,fixed,closely grouped,above ground facilities that would`ve been a pretty terrible idea in terms of survivability back in the 1970s,let alone in the 2020s.
Worked wonderfully recently...
Launch on warning makes sense for South Korea.
It sends a message that South Korea intends to use-or-lose them. Any attack signs from the North will result in the launching of those missiles.
