S. Korea’s new Hyunmoo-V monster missile promises nuclear-like destruction with nine-ton warhead
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/south-koreas-new-hyunmoo-v-monster-missile-promises-nuclear-like-destruction-with-nine-ton-warhead
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Non-nuke analogs without radiation won’t trigger some international consequences. Good job.
Think it can cracked a hole in the 3 gorges dam
Dang. That has to be one of the most powerful non-nuclear missile with 9-ton explosives.
US has GBU-43 glide bomb nicknames Mother of All Bomb with 11-ton TNT but require aircraft to be launched.
Pretty smart. Develop a deterrent without causing a strain in international relations.
Calling a 9-ton penetrating warhead “nuclear-like” just because they can both hit things underground is a stretch.
Impressive in its own right, but it’s in no way even remotely similar to a nuclear weapon. Nuclear warheads are in the range of kilotons, i.e. thousands of tons. A 300 kt nuclear warhead would be equivalent to about 33,000 of these (obviously, there’s no way you’d be able to launch and detonate them simultaneously in a single spot).
Still, a ballistic missile with a 9 ton warhead is scary as hell. Likely a message to Kim that no bunker is safe for his fat floppy cheeks.
SK’s defence industry is no joke. I guess that’s what happens when you have some of the smartest people in the world and crazy neighbours next to you.
That is an unfortunate way of portraying its actual very specific purpose.
Its primary purpose is to be a 3000+ km range deeply penetrating bunker buster missile capable of destroying the Iranian-designed deep underground military facilities in North Korea.
A magnificent step towards global peace to be sure.
> The missile employs a unique cold-launch system, using compressed gas to propel it before ignition
I think that’s pretty normal for large missiles, otherwise you melt the launcher
Now give these as aid to Ukraine for ”testing”…
NK can talk all day about nukes, but if SK can just demonstrate once that their weapon can accurately hit and destroy a target, it’ll work better as a deterrent.
A working delivery mechanism is almost more important than the warhead.
Ukraine needs these
Man, I would hate to be the one driving that truck. 1 wrong move and you, along with part of the country. totally gone.
A 9-ton warhead isn’t nuclear-like, except that both explode.
The A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in the kilotons, ie: THOUSANDS of tons of explosives (in equivalence).
They need to add, at least, three kore zeros to the end of the number nine before talking “nuclear”.
Well what’s the point? Can modern western tactics defeat NK missile defense systems? It seems like the Israeli defense systems are nearly impregnable surely China, NK, Russia have similar defensive capabilities right? Or am I naive as to the true strength of the US?
I’d name it Mountain buster instead of bunker buster.