Wednesday, August 28, 2024

South Korea’s impressive force of cruise and ballistic missiles

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Armed to the teeth!

"South Korea’s force of indigenously developed ballistic and cruise missiles may be the most underappreciated set of weaponry in Asia.

With little publicity, this strike-missile capability has been growing for decades, and it’s poised to surge following the end of a deal in which Washington and Seoul agreed to limits on what South Korea could develop.

South Korea has a family of Tomahawk-like cruise missile designs that can fly as far as 1500km against land targets. It also has a variety of ballistic missile types of increasing range and payload capacity, with one forthcoming weapon to be capable of submarine launch and another, for land-launch, with a range in the intermediate category, meaning 3000km to 5500km. ...
This year South Korea said it had developed and successfully tested the Hyunmoo V ballistic missile, which will reportedly carry independently targetable re-entry vehicles and manoeuvrable re-entry vehicles. The Hyunmoo 5 may have a range of 3000km ..."

South Korea’s impressive force of cruise and ballistic missiles | The Strategist

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