S. Korea: Locally Developed Shoulder-fired Missile Successfully Tested

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 10/30/03

[TigerLikesRooster]

http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200310/200310300216.html

A Test Launch of Shin-Goong

S. Korea: Locally Developed Shoulder-fired Missile Successfully Tested

S. Korea developed its own shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile, Shin-goong, which passed the test in flying colors. Mass production will start next year.

The missile has a maximum range of 7,000m, and can reach up to 3,500m in height. In seven different tests, it showed hit ratio of over 90%. It is also equipped with two-color detector, which can guide the missile away from flares dropped to fool it.

Shin-goong detonates itself when it reaches within 1.5m of the target aircraft. The explosion produces 720 fragments who would destroy the aircraft's engine, resulting in a shoot-down.

American Stinger and Russian Igla(?) detonates itself upon contact with the target. Their hit ratio is about 60%. French Mistral's hit ratio is about 90%. However, Mistral is 5-6kg heavier.

If the production runs at full capacity starting next year, 500 Shin-goong's per year can be manufactured.

Mistral costs $200,000 per unit, while Shin-goong $160,000 per unit. Shin-goong will save the military $400 million, according to military sources.

The military has been using Mistral, Stinger, and (British)Javelin since 1988. N. Korea is known to possess 10,000 Russian-made SA-7's and SA-16's.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Mamzelle]

Great!

[NYFriend]

Not to worry, I don't know about thier arms program, but I once owned a KIA hatchback.

[old patriot]

This seems a good alternative to all those emerging states that either had to but Euro, Ruusian or US. As the Jap/Korean cars started a trend here and in the rest of the world, so too should this country's weapons industry. Good for them. This may put a fire under US manufacturers to keep up with the Joneses.

Old Patriot

[Last Dakotan]

Now that they can defend themselves let's leave.

[joey703]

about the "US manufacturers to keep up with the Joneses." .... well, i really dont think that'll ever happen... the US military-industrial complex with its ogliopolistic market structure which now so much hinders innovation has the firmest grip in the largest market in the world (US). ... $400 million the article was talking about....

it can be argued that for each type of military equipment/ship/aircraft their is a superior technological and more innovative equilavent made by a foreign company....(problem is, if u can find 'em) (except for maybe aircraft carriers)...

[HiTech RedNeck]

The $400M savings would be for 10,000 missiles if each one saves $40,000. At 500 missiles per year it would take 20 years to make that many. Not exactly an arms explosion.

[dennisw]

So who are they going to be selling this to? Seems like an ideal weapon for terrorists.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It sounds like they plan to keep them all to themselves. (I hope so)

[old patriot]

The problem is that we always seem to suffer from a NIH attitude of superiority. We can design the best if need be, the P-51 and the Sidewinder are two examples, but we were forced ro accept the British Canberra bomber because of the large lobby blocking such actions. Even after the first Gulf war, there was complete resistance to any thought that the Patriot had any faults. And the propsed PAC-II and III modes were going to make it the best in the world, with our continued insistance that the Russian Iskala being nonexistant. We just will not admit, nor even consider that someone else can come up with a good idea, even if from amother American.

Old Patriot

[dennisw]

It sounds like they plan to keep them all to themselves. (I hope so)

South Korea is a US ally and dependent on defence. Hopefully they will only sell to those we approve of. Ha...maybe we'll buy some.

[OahuBreeze]

Timing is everything! You go, Noh!


21 October 2003 13:11
APEC leaders agree to introduce comtrol over SAM turnover
Leaders of the APEC member states have agreed to introduce tough national control over exports of portable anti-aircraft missile systems, reads the Bangkok declaration adopted at the APEC summit.

The APEC leaders decided to prohibit sales of such systems to non-state final consumers, to ensure the safety of their storage, to introduce national measures to regulate their production, transfer and trade. "We agreed to proceed with strengthening national control over portable anti-aircraft missile systems and to review the work carried out over a year in Chile," the Declaration reads.

[http://gazeta.ru/]

[joey703]

ironically, buying S.K. missles actually increases S.K reliance on the US for defense, but actually if u look at what they've been doing they're actually trying to build a blue-water fleet (aimed at whom u think?).... not North Korea.... but per se....?