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China-Japan-Koreas
South Korea fires first ballistic missile from a submarine in technological breakthrough as it ramps up spending to defend itself from the North
2021-09-07
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • New Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine carried out successful tests last week

  • South Korea joins handful of countries that have developed a submarine missile

  • Submarine-launched ballistic missiles can be armed with nuclear warheads

  • North Korea has been working on SLBMs but has not yet achieved success
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  I'm guessing that launch was designed to signal that the SKors have something to put on the top of the missile in their arsenal now. Head-fake to Kim-Ch to buy time, or signal to Uncle to pay attention, it has to be taken as a credible signal even if the cupboard is actually empty for now.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-09-07 13:58  

#8  #6 - I believe there are some more dams upstream, no?
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-07 13:56  

#7  FROKA, SROKA and TROKA have the Nork problem well in hand. The communists have crappy old equipment from the 70s. They can cause some casualties with an artillery bombardment but Seoul is honeycombed with bomb shelters and it won't be all it's cracked up to be.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616   2021-09-07 12:55  

#6  I hope this unclassified aerial photo PPT is of some assistance to planners.

Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-07 12:23  

#5  Nukes are the only defense for Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the Phils against China.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-07 11:36  

#4  Behold the "Biden Peace Dividend" as the Pacific Rim goes nuclear.
Posted by: magpie   2021-09-07 11:06  

#3  I suspect they will be aimed more westward than north.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-09-07 10:50  

#2  Which way will they be aimed: north, west or east?
Posted by: Whoting Phomolet9789   2021-09-07 10:10  

#1  ...Myself, I'm wondering what they're putting in those SLBMs. That's a lot of money and effort just to get a hyper-accurate HE warhead someplace.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-09-07 09:50  

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