South Korean ship fires on a ship

[Happy Times]

Im surprised the ROK doesnt have underwater surveillance systems integrated with other surveillence installed in this area? They seem ideal and called for there.
Its offcourse possible they have and this is what led to the incident in the first place.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

Im surprised the ROK doesnt have underwater surveillance systems integrated with other surveillence installed in this area? They seem ideal and called for there.
Its offcourse possible they have and this is what led to the incident in the first place.

Might be worried that the DPRK would just destroy them in the first seconds of a war. A Il-28 could just drop a depth bomb on it or a diver could go out and slap a limpet mine on it and boom- gone. In peace time some DPRK trawler might snag it and give them a sonar system decades more advanced than what they got already. The ROK operates P-3s and S-2s which have tremendous range which in the small area the ROKN operates in equals huge loiter time that should give them sufficient motoring capability in the Yellow Sea. Plus the ROKN operates a number of submarines for monitoring the DPRK.