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Old 10-13-17, 11:39 AM   #748
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We've got one squadron coming (slowly) online I believe, should be up by next year.

Really though the main thing the ROK will be after are CAS, since the KPAF will be pretty much dead within the first couple of days, if they even bother to show up.

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Originally Posted by ikalugin View Post
Oberon, the heaviest MIRVed ICBMs were always liquid fuelled ones.

All things considered they may be interested in ICBMs with storable liquid fuels due to how those are most efficient in terms of throw weight. For example Russia, despite mastering solid fuel MIRVed ICBMs (such as Yars) is still desighning a new generation liqiud fuel ICBM - Sarmat.
I think survivability is the problem, for Russia it would not be easy for enemy aircraft to penetrate Russian airspace and hunt for TELs, but the DPRK is going to lose aerial superiority very quickly so it's either got to launch everything it has early before it gets blown up, or hide it very well. The advantages of Cold launch solid fuels mean that the preparation time is extremely small so they can just roll out and fire.

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BMD stuff is not a significant issue in my opinion, as the BMD sites are well known and are covered by two EW systems, the EW radars and the new EW sats. While the sat force did suffer attrition, with the gap in capability occuring (2014?) it is now back to minimal capability (with more launches to go) and coverage of two nodes - Pacific and Atlantic from HEOs.
Specifically we have deployed new radar stations on Eastern direction, to improve EW in that direction:
 

You can read more here: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/eks-network.html
http://russianforces.org/sprn/
So what's with the data discrepancy over the missile launches?

https://www.rt.com/news/395213-north...ssian-defense/

https://www.rt.com/news/397886-north-korean-irbm-range/

The figures released by the Russian MOD on the 4th July launch are out by 2,000km altitude and 400km horizontal range.
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