"There is a growing consensus that China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are aligning into a modern Tripartite Pact, prompting calls for the United States to formulate a grand strategy aimed at thwarting this perceived Eurasian coalition."
The Wiki for this North Korean missile provides some technical details that I declare doubtful.
No comment on the report that such debris was there . . . in January . . . and that it meant anything.
What I will comment on is the details. 1100 pound warhead. Odd declaration of 100meters of Circular Error Probability for accuracy at impact . . . with satellite aiding. 200 Meters INS only. The declared wiki speed is Mach 4.
This doesn’t make much sense. The vehicle will have a hyper accurate input from the launcher at moment of launch. From then on, error that might accumulate will be from steering and sensor drift. But this doesn’t make sense.
Range is about 250 miles. At Mach 4, with some time to accelerate to Mach 4 (2900 mph), time enroute is well under 10 minutes. This is nowhere near enough time for an INS to drift.
If satellite aiding (Glonass) CEP is 100 meters, INS only is not going to be 200 meters. That’s just absurd. It probably won’t be much different at all from the Glonass/INS vehicle if time enroute is that short.
So this is a 100 meter missile according to Wiki. Also absurd. That’s a lot of error and Glonass is just as accurate as GPS.
It’s very hard to get good information. This wiki doesn’t qualify as such.
they’ll thwart themselves if given enough time.
Iran has never been more isolated in modern times. The arabs did the unthinkable and defended Israel.
Russia is paying 16% for money and has watched the ruble circle the toilet numerous times lately.
China is still as much 30yrs behind as it is a modern nation.
North Korea is and will remain the largest counterfeiters on earth and little else.
It’s such a shame that combined with Northern and Western Europe having decimated their military-
that the United States of America is more mighty relative to the world than perhaps anytime in history excluding the day before the Enola Gay took off.
By such a shame, I mean a shame for the hate America idiot class.