Kaysic
Kaysic OP t1_j2fiv18 wrote
Reply to comment by Merluner in N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea by Kaysic
>how far will inertial nav get them?
Within 1km. And that's just what the SCUDS built in the 70s had.
>They haven't shown off any nukes. They just did big booms underground.
No, there's been KCNA broadcasts sitting KJU touring nuclear facilities where they showed the alleged warheads.
Kaysic OP t1_j2fdkjz wrote
Reply to comment by Merluner in N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea by Kaysic
>they don't have a guidance system
They regularly demonstrate the ability to strike a 100m-sixed island off their coast. And, even assuming they had no tech more advanced than the SCUDS they had in the 90s... inertial navigation is still enough to get a 1km CEP.
>can't miniaturize nukes
The nukes they've shown off are of adequate size to fit on their larger missiles at least. Again, assuming they've made exactly no progress at all, which is groundless.
>They can't sustainably compost enough of their dead citizens to make fuel for the rockets.
I mean, they launched more missiles in 2022 than any other year before it despite all of the economic lockdown of COVID, do maybe they do have some secret peasant compost.
Kaysic OP t1_j2f7f27 wrote
Reply to comment by TAKEWITHAGRAINOFSHIT in N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea by Kaysic
>So is NK only posturing or are they trying to learn the math for ballistic missiles?
They already do, as demonstrated by these or the 73 launches in 2022.
People keep treating North Korea like it's still 2002.
Kaysic OP t1_j2emx7n wrote
Seeing as it's 0330 in Korea... Happy New Year?
Kaysic t1_j1uleym wrote
Reply to Air Force quietly speeds up plans to eliminate spy planes on the front line of America's fentanyl war by jivatman
>“[SECAF Kendall] basically made clear that DoD business is not, in essence, domestic drug issues even though DoD is one of the primary people responsible,” Kinzinger said about the meeting.
The DoD being one of the "primary people responsible" for counter-narcotic operations is a self-perpetuating mission requirement. The DoD is responsible for military operations, not law enforcement and counternarcotics. Counternarcotic and border control support was an opportunistic mission - a way to make better use of sorties that would've otherwise just been empty training flights. The RC-26's original, tactical mission has been supplanted by objectively better platforms, both manned and unmanned - and the "side bonus" of counternarcotics can't itself justify the airframe's continued use.
It's like planning a road trip to some big destination and planning to stop for coffee along the way - then deciding not to go to the destination, but still driving out to the "on the way" coffee place hundreds of miles away.
Kaysic OP t1_j2frqhm wrote
Reply to comment by Merluner in N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea by Kaysic
No, they don't. North Korea has been exporting SCUD missiles since the 80s. They, demonstrably, have the tech to build them.
They have also demonstrated higher accuracy missiles that indicate satnav integration. This isn't a hypothetical, it is a "There is video and civilian satellite imagery confirming it."