[NonValueAdded]

in the shadow of some 500 long-range heavy artillery guns from which North Korea can fire half a million artillery shells an hour, for several hours.

Assumes no SK counter-battery capability. I wonder how a MOAB would do?

[Tallguy]

Your not going to fly a C-130 over NK airspace until every MiG & SAM is eliminated. AFAIK the Herk is the only aircraft capable of dropping the MOAB.

[BBell]

If you would have bothered to read the article you would have read this:

" A West Point armor officer who was born while his father was fighting in Korea, Sharp is charged with executing Op Plan 5027, the war-fighting blueprint that focuses immediately on destroying North Korean artillery. Those targets are already stored in U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) computers for instant destruction by artillery, missiles or air strikes. Radar which back-traces the trajectory of enemy artillery shells would precisely locate mobile artillery.

It does go on too. Just click the link.

[DuncanWaring]

Assumes no SK counter-battery capability. I wonder how a MOAB would do?

It's my understanding that much of the Nork artillery is emplaced in caves carved into rock, with steel doors that only open when ready to actually fire. "MOAB" would be absolutely useless. I certainly hope the SK counter-battery artillery has precision-guidance capabilities.