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N.Korea 'Developing Missile Submarine'
2014-08-28
The Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday claimed North Korea is developing a submarine capable of launching ballistic missiles.

"A missile launch tube on a North Korean submarine was observed recently by U.S. intelligence agencies and is raising new concerns about the missile and nuclear threat from the communist regime in Pyongyang," the Free Beacon claimed.

It said the North has secretly bought and modified old Soviet SS-N-6 SLB missiles to render them capable of being launched from submarines.
I'll bet our guys can hear it coming a long, long ways away...
If the alleged plan succeeds, the North could strike Anchorage in Alaska, and U.S. military bases on Okinawa, the Philippines, and Guam from waters near Sakhalin, Russia, the webzine speculated.
If we did absolutely nothing to hinder them. Which, given our present administration, might be part of the plan...
It cited speculation that the submarine would be either a modification of the Romeo-class diesel submarine that was made by Russia or China or a copy of the old Soviet Golf-class submarine that the North bought from Russia in the mid-1990s.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Note that we can't see this one is being towed for the picture, and it looks like someone spilled an umbrella drink on the front sundeck.
Posted by: Skidmark   2014-08-28 18:24  

#8  I'm reminded of one that ran on Alka Seltzer.
Posted by: Skidmark   2014-08-28 18:22  

#7  Don't be so hard on the boys for only painting the visible part; the USN routinely only paints the starboard side of CVs when coming into port so it looks way cool for the photo ops.

And then there was the time that President Clinton was coming to visit and part of the dress up was to create tie down blank off plates, painted blue and held in place with tool clips. there were about 4000 of them on the flight desk and after Slick Willie left they were all used in a one time Frisbee-like competition: all tossed over the side.....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-08-28 14:56  

#6  Gort, they've built those and used them to sink a South Korean corvette in the last five years.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-08-28 11:39  

#5  Anyone can design and build a boat that can submerge.

It takes a fair bit more skill to build one that can remain hidden (be quiet) and surface on command.
Posted by: GORT   2014-08-28 10:47  

#4  More likely the N stands for Neglected.
Posted by: gorb   2014-08-28 10:00  

#3  From the photo at the link, it looks like they only keep the sub's paint refreshed (sort of) above the water line.

Not being a naval guy, don't know if this is SOP or not, but seems somewhat shoddy.

Especially when 'Dear Fat-Boy®' is inspecting the rig.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2014-08-28 08:33  

#2  No the N stands for Naval.
Posted by: Zorba Fleresh4606   2014-08-28 02:10  

#1   SS-N-6 SLB missiles

Been a long time since I played Harpoon, but if memory serves, the 'N' in SS-N-6 stands for 'nuclear'.

Even the possibility of sub-launched nukes makes the usual NORK game of "What Can We Extort Next?" much more interesting.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-08-28 00:44  

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