[Godzilla]

Photographs of the KN HW-15 rocket released today. It is not only big but technologically advanced - particularly the first stage. This rocket has two main thrusters that gimble - adjust to guide the rocket. earlier HW-14 had a single engine and 4 smaller engines to adjust course. This puts the HW-15 as roughly equivalent to the old Titan II though not having the same payload capacity.
Because this is the first launch of this new engine system, I suspect perhaps a second high apogee test to confirm reliability. After that I would expect the announced / threatened atmospheric nuke test. NK doesn’t want to toss a live nuke up (and all the expense there in ) only to have it blow up on them if the rocket fails

[LucyT]

Check out # 210.

Thanks, Godzilla.

[ptsal]

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