Posted on 02/26/2017 11:22:27 AM PST by fella
On February 12th North Korea conducted a test a new mobile ballistic missile test in which the “Polaris 2” was successfully fired from canister on a tracked vehicle acting as a TEL (Transporter Erector Launcher). The TEL used the same cold launch used by the North Korean “Polaris 1” SLBM (submarine launched ballistic missile). The Polaris (or Pukguksong) 2 appeared to be the same missile as the Polaris 1, except that it was fired from a canister on a TEL instead of a silo in a submarine. A mobile TEL carrying a ballistic missile that can reach all of South Korea and parts of Japan (and China), especially one armed with a chemical or nuclear warhead, makes North Korea a much more dangerous threat, North Korea achieved this by illegally obtaining components for the TEL, the missile and quite possibly the cold launch capability. Most of this tech can be traced back to known North Korean relationships, usually illegal ones) with suppliers in Russia, China and Iran. Some items were illegally obtained from Japan and European nations. That North Korea has all this tech is now a fact. Exactly how they got it is another matter and details on that will take another decade or so to emerge.
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Polaris? Original they ain’t...
Despite massive (and very distracting!) and expensive aerial and on-ground searches, we never did find the missile launchers going against Israel & US forces during the Iraq wars.
The best way to track them would be to park a geo-stationary satellite over NK and follow them out of the factory 24-7.
Geo-stationary satellites can be parked only over points on the equator.
Geosynchronous satellites can be “parked” on the Korean longitude, but their ground track oscillates north and south over the course of each orbit.
I think you have to worry if NK has a sub big enough to put this sucker in. If they do, we are in deep sh!te.
And one of the problems is that one day some dictator who is in poor health,or afraid of an eminent invasion, or for whatever reason abandons his concern for his own well-being,will launch a nuclear strike just to “show the world he is who he is” Right now, we are probably safe from Lil Kim, but a few years down the road.....
hilarious your paranoid war mongering
The DPRK is not a threat to America period
Sound like they are using and building knock-offs of 1960’s Soviet subs. Thus noisy, easily located and easily sunk on need. But capable of doing their job if we let them. The question is whether we, or SK, decide to sink them in time.
“hilarious your paranoid war mongering
The DPRK is not a threat to America period”
pretty much the same crap you said about iran. you do know that NK has been counterfeiting our currency for decades right?????
Fat Kim, in his ordered assassination of his half brother, has shown his willingness to use chemical warfare. As his hold on power gets more tenuous in an economic collapse, he could attack the south.
I predict they never get across the international dateline without catching a MK 48 ADCAP.
“pretty much the same crap you said about iran. you do know that NK has been counterfeiting our currency for decades right?????”
just like the Federal Reserve
LOL
“just like the Federal Reserve”
Nope - just like iran.
I say we nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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