DPRK Navy ships

[sahureka]

CIWS 30mm and Torpedo Tube 533mm

 

[Sferrin]

Makes the new US frigate look like a sad sack.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916131505593848275

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View: https://x.com/JosephHDempsey/status/1916162696816349558

 

[SUPER=BUG]

Quite a beautiful battleship, they have done a good job.

 

[Ainen]

Furthermore the Western Pacific is getting more and more militarized every year, with various nations building up and modernizing their navies and the USN shifting their attention from the unimpressed European theater to the crucial WESTPAC. And especially with neighbors like Japan and the ROK, which field large fleets, it makes sense to just go "fuck it we ball". I can also imagine that the Chinese are very content with this development, as it would mean that in the future there would be aa sizeable, friendly Navy in the region which could distract and deal with lesser adversaries in a potential conflict against the United States (or alternatively also be used to harass USN ships).

For China, most North Korean strengthening is trouble, not asset.

China doesn't really need help in this regard, and it can't somehow skip region right next to Beijing. For same reason, if DPRK will be seriously threatened, China will intervene even despite negative feelings towards Pyongyang.

But DPRK tricks (nuclear, missile program) bring a lot of trouble for China. China is most certainly not interested in geopolitical tension in the region...and DPRK not just brings it, it also holds keys of this instability. Not Beijing.

Last thing Beijing wants is genuine pretext for USCG presence off peninsula(or THAAD, or ROK ballistic missile program, or, or). North gives this pretexts all the time.

 

[lancer21]

Petty politics would be best left out of the discussion, this is about DPRK ships so better stick to that.

If i'm counting correctly, apart from the 74 VLS tubes of various sizes, there are still apparently 8 inclined tubes for possibly Hwasal CMs, plus 8 tubes of the Kashtan, so this ship possibly has 90 (!) ready to fire weapons. Not to mention the gatlings. So it has practically the tube firepower of a 052D class DDG on likely a smaller displacement.

 

[Gwalker18]

Are these loitering torpedoes?

 

[Gwalker18]

CIWS 30mm and Torpedo Tube 533mm
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Torpedoes or this (Circled in Yellow)

 

[sahureka]

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Makes the new US frigate look like a sad sack.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916131505593848275

View: https://x.com/stoa1984/status/1916131505593848275

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916162696816349558

View: https://x.com/JosephHDempsey/status/1916162696816349558

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In the centre of the ship is a structure resembling that of the Amnok-class corvette from which the Hwasal-2 (2x4) cruise missiles are launched

Here on the Choi Hyun 51

Numbers 2 and 3 are for the venting of missile launch gases
Number 2 in ready-to-launch conditions a door slides to the side opening the vent
Number 3 is an always open arrangement

for comparison note the structure from which the cruise missile is launched from the Amnok-class corvette

 

[lancer21]

Another point of interest is what appears to be the missile for the Kashtan like system (see under the system itself).
PS: Actually, that seems a lot more like a Pantsir-M system.

 

[sahureka]

Torpedoes or this (Circled in Yellow)

looks like the russian anti-submarine missiles 91РЭ2 which is launched by VLS from ships

 

[Scott Kenny]

21" ASW torpedoes is interesting.

 

[sahureka]

Interesting what Kim Jong Un's speech at ceremony of launching destroyer Choi Hyun 51 weapon systems installed and what is planned for the future

Voice of Korea

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www.vok.rep.kp

The emergence of this destroyer has made a breakthrough in modernizing our naval forces.
To explain the hardware of the destroyer, an ensemble of our self-reliant defence technology, it is equipped not only with anti-air, anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-ballistic missile capability but also with weapon systems for the most effective ground striking operations, like hypersonic strategic cruise missile, tactical ballistic missile and other means of strike. So it is capable of performing multi-mission surface operations and thus increasing the possibility of direct intervention by the Navy in the ground operations.
This is one of the things of great significance in view of the militar
This warship will be handed over to the Navy and launched into operation in early next year after going through the necessary procedures, like the assessment of its performance and capability for conducting operations and the test of operation of its integrated equipment.
We will, of course, build warships of this class next year, too. And we are planning to build in the shortest time possible a cruiser, whose operations capability is greater, as well as escort ships of various classes, and are now examining their master plans at the final stage.
We will execute this plan of building multi-mission destroyers year by year, and these ships will sail for operations in ordinary times in the coastal defensive waters and intermediate waters.
.......
Today's ceremony of launching a new-type destroyer will serve as a signal flare for strengthening the Navy of the DPRK.
And the second signal flare will be just the building of a nuclear-powered submarine.

 

[Dilandu]

And we are planning to build in the shortest time possible a cruiser,

I really wonder how big their cruiser would be... Most likely about 10.000 tons, of course (i.e. "big destroyer" grade), but what if they really would go after 15.000-20.000 battlecruiser, with enough missile capacity to challenge Japanese/South Korean SAG's?

And the second signal flare will be just the building of a nuclear-powered submarine.

Yep, they are building one. They already published photos of a very large submarine build in covered dry dock:



Apparently she got a hull diameter about 12-14 meters - same as modern boomers.

 

[Ainen]

I really wonder how big their cruiser would be... Most likely about 10.000 tons, of course (i.e. "big destroyer" grade), but what if they really would go after 15.000-20.000 battlecruiser, with enough missile capacity to challenge Japanese/South Korean SAG's?

I don't think you can anyhow challenge fleets with missile capacity alone.
Missiles in surface warfare are effectors closing kill loop. No less, no more.

 

[lancer21]

Bmpd's article on Choi Hyun DDG-51 launch.

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