Yeah but whats the point of a smaller warhead for it? They don't need it for N.K. and atleast for now China ain't the problem.Warhead size can be varied.
S. Korea Completes Hyunmoo-V Ballistic Missile Development
South Korea has announced the successful development of the Hyunmoo-V ballistic missile to be fitted on the country’s future arsenal ship.www.thedefensepost.com
Submarine beam.
If you lived in their part of town, next door to a couple of psychos, you'd be as well armed as you could afford.
I expect that they have designed and tested implosion lenses already. Those are only a couple hundred lbs of HE or even less, it'd be nearly impossible to detect that small a blast seismically mixed in among all the other live-fire events they have. As long as they've gotten good compression, I don't believe it'll take long at all to manufacture pits.
They already need a source of heavy water for their CANDU reactors.
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South Korea's new Hyunmoo-V monster missile promises nuclear-like destruction with nine-ton warhead
South Korea's new Hyunmoo-V monster missile promises nuclear-like destruction with nine-ton warhead
Since it is allegedly a 2-stage missile, I think it's closer to 9K716 Volga on steroids.
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"Almost"? I'd bet $10k it's far larger than Sentinel. Hell, we should probably have South Korea build our ICBM at this point. Would not be at all surprised if it were related somehow to that fat solid motor South Korea tested years ago.
I think this was just an excuse to research ICBM tech.
ICBM in size. Traded range for throw weight.
9 tons worth of warhead. If they use thermobarics or Assault Breaker style dispensers then it's RIP for Nork armour forces. Heck, how about lofting the missile at low altitude with downward-ejecting nukes. Pluto SLAM on the cheap.
Because they needed a bigass rocket to lift the amount of boom they wanted.
Well, if they replace 8-ton warhead with additional stage & smaller warhead, it may be perfectly possible.
But again, why? The South Koreans don't need to hit targets more than 1000km away if we include Beijing.
This missile will specifically use unitary bunker buster munition. It's primary role is to decapitate Kim and his cronies hiding deep inside North Korean bunkers.
One reason could be strategic deterrence against China. They've got lots and lots of dams, including Three Gorges. They say these dams were design and built to withstand possible hostile attacks, but I'm not sure if such hostil attack also includes a several-tonne heavy purpose-built bunker buster ballistic missile warhead impacting on supersonic or even hypersonic speeds.
It's more than triple. 8 x W88 = 8 x 360kg = 2880kg.
Yeah but there is a little russian port right around the corner which if attacked would hurt russia.
Almost all north Korean infrastructure has underground doubles.
It won't be of much use against Russia without nuclear tip.
Vladivostok and the whole Kamchatka area would utterly cripple Russia in the Pacific.
Neither Vladivostok nor Kamchatka will magically explode if you shoot at them; it's just single conventional warheads, even if powerful. It will not 'utterly cripple' region the size of US.
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Yeah, and for what? It's not like South Korea has some supreme leader that has grip on everything going on within the country and is the centre of power who wants to hide inside a deep bunker in case there's a hot war. It'll be useless.
20 tonnes of submunitions would delete any ground-level attack.
South Korea also happens to have power/control nodes, that out of necessity hide in bunkers to allow access to command and communication facilities.
The point of hm-5 is not just to lift warhead over the border, it's to slam it downwards, vertically from a lofted trajectory, piercing some very high level fortifications w/o need for nukes.
