Posted on 02/13/2017 10:48:09 AM PST by C19fan
The new type of intermediate-range ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Sunday is a "game changer", according to analysts, because it uses a solid fuel engine that makes the weapon more stable and reduces the time required to fuel a missile before launch.
The Pukguksong-2 is also road-mobile on tractor-erector-launcher units, analysts point out, all of which means that the weapon is more difficult to detect and neutralise before it is launched.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If a 600 billion budget can’t detect and destroy a third world, in the dark country’s nuke, we’re in a lot of ####ing trouble.
The problem is it’s hard to get the fuse lit in damp weather.
Do you remember Scud hunting from the first Gulf War?
It ain’t easy, esp. if they have solid fuel rockets.
Yeah, a hundred-foot-long plume of white-hot exhaust gas is really hard to detect.
Vast quantities (hundreds of thousands) of networked drones will change that equation.
Depends on the availability of countermeasures - jamming, hacking, counter weapons.
We have already lost drones to these.
Ping
Hold China responsible for any and all North Korean belligerence
If you change “will” to “would” in your sentence, you would have a good point. I am not familiar with any current DOD program to network hundreds/thousands of ISR drones, but I am ready to be enlightened.
Knowing where to look helps.
When you deploy strategic missiles on mobile launchers, the equation changes.
They finally caught up with us - in 1956.
Did you see the Super Bowl halftime show?
Drones.
Lots of drones, acting in enough coordination to map and display that American flag in mid-air.
And just last month an F-18 dropped a swarm of drones that communicated and cooridinated.
DARPA-funded unclassified work at just one university (Penn):
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme
Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight
The Future of Flying Robots | Vijay Kumar | TED Talks
Swarming Drones
Going backwards because they can’t perfect liquid fuel rockets which are more efficient and suitable for exiting/entering the atmosphere....
They are correct in that a solid fuel missile is a game changer.
Solid fuel? So they are up to 1960 standards?
Trumps should take the next one out before it is launched.
And the military base with it.
Say “oops”
lol
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