Doesn't that make the supposition that the SORKs just sit there and let it happen? Don't they (we) have munitions that basically reverse engineer the artillery/rocket trajectory and lay a huge barrage back on the source?
“Don’t they (we) have munitions that basically reverse engineer the artillery/rocket trajectory and lay a huge barrage back on the source?”
These are conventional artillery shells and rockets. I don’t see us having any technology to stop anything incoming like that. We would just have to pinpoint their mobile locations and destroy them with guided bombs. Now we do have Patriot Anti-Missile interceptor battery systems set up along the DMZ in case they launched missiles like Scuds (what Saddam used on Israel) at Seoul. They will be useful.
yes they do, and they know where a good portion of it is positioned. However the north will get the first shots in. They have A LOT of artillery, all within range of the 20 million people in Seoul.
No, because the North Koreans have been tunneling in the gun positions into the side of the mountains overlooking Seuol for a half century now. The South Koreans realize their cities will likely suffer severe damage and have taken some civil defense measures in response. However, some South Koreans see the eventuality of a final war with North Korea as the perhaps inevitable consequence of a failure to persuade North Korea to reform its ways. North Korea may eventually commit the equivalent of “suicide by cop” in the effort to extricate itself from the endless nightmare it has been living.