It's good to know I wasn't the only one thinking that! seemed way out of context to me!:hmmm:

Due to the media's inability to correctly discern the difference between a surface to surface and surface to sea missile...has anyone heard from a good source if the missiles deployed to the Yellow Sea are the Taepo Dong type or possible Silkworm type?

How credible is the Yonhap News Agency?

South Korea military spots North Korea firing artillery

Explosions heard

The Silkworm type missiles are deployed on mobile launchers mounted on tank chassis or towed by trucks. So they could be anywhere. The NK-01 turbojet variant has a range of approximately 270 nm. These could be hidden anywhere, the Norks have a lot of bunkers.

No idea on the Taepo Dong but I doubt it, it would be more inland and well protected.

The DPRK has a little over 10 SA-2 Sites near the Yellow Sea coast plus a SA-5 site, plus 6 SA-3 sites in Pyongyang, not to mention tons of AAA.

They also have around 30 small surface combatants and around 7 subs in and around Namp'o. North of Kwai they have 3 Romeos, 7 Coastal Subs, 40 small surface combatants, and 8 medium surface combatants.

Very...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonhap

Thanks TLAM!

No problem.

Here are a few Google Earth Images of the ships, now the dates on some maybe old but the DPRK doesn't move their ships from coast to coast to the counts are accurate unless they scrapped the ship.

Their large base near Kwai:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1148/14766127.jpg
The surface ships there, the big ones on the left are Osa type boats:
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1994/75360368.jpg

The base at Namp'o:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/54/71742160.jpg

My understanding is that both SA-2s and ASCMs (including "silkworms") have been deployed to the Yellow Sea coastal area.

Here is an overview of the DPRK's known SAM Sites...
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4712/sams.jpg
The red Triangles are SA-2s.
The Light Blue Triangles are SA-3s.
The Purple Triangles are SA-5s
The Blue Circle is a 36D6 'TIN SHIELD' Radar Site.

From: http://geimint.blogspot.com/

Their air defense system looks fairly pathetic, actually. Combined with their air force being largely obsolete, I can't imagine that it would take longer than a couple of hours for South Korea/combined forces to have total air superiority in this...

Yeah, I'm reading a couple of sources about missiles being moved out to the yellow sea and other launch sites. Not entirely unexpected though, they have to rattle something in response to the exercises. I'm curious whether the situation happening now is what they wanted to achieve, or if they're a little scared themselves. We'll have to wait and see what the response will be now that China is calling for talks - perhaps they'll come running to the table.

He gets about...actually, tbh I haven't got a clue but the rest of it is funny. :03: Well, IMHO it is anyway.

Could have been this:

South Korean artillery accidentally fired into southern side of DMZ

Oops. Now imagine if they accidentally fired one into North Korea and that, accidentally of course, started a war.

This is why you don't let Bernard man the guns :timeout:

/facepalm

Why won't she just do everyone a favor and just go away?

Excellent point and observation. It's never the old ones who were alive to see the korean war that say, "F**k you GI!", or "GI go home!" its just everybody else that spits in our face.

I for one, never changed my support for ROK. I never willingly supported them, nor the DPRK. As far as im concerned, their little civil war is none of our concern, and i just assume let them pound each other back into the stone age.

Same ole ... same ole.....

I believe it. There are assets prepositioned all over the penninsula, as well as emergency runways.

How many subs?
 

Hi just for couriosity,

how many attacksubs do you think the USN is sending into the yellow sea as we are speaking?

Zero. They're already there.