South Korea Successfully Conducts Test Launch of a SLBM
This is a pretty significant technological leap by the ROK Navy:
South Korea has successfully test-fired a homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a new submarine to become the world’s eighth country to possess the weapon, sources said Tuesday.
The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) carried out underwater ejection tests of the SLBM from the Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine last week after successful launches from an underwater barge last month, according to the military sources.
The locally developed 3,000-ton class submarine is equipped with six vertical launch tubes.
Yonhap
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Fatty thanks them for the Hyunmu specifications.
>This is a pretty significant technological leap by the ROK Navy:
Not really. South Korea already had this technology developed. Only it didn’t reveal it, due to US restrictions on South Korea’s military industry. As soon as the US also completely lifts its restrictions on South Korea’s missile distance, the restrictions on a nuclear sub, and restrictions on South Korea’s right to reprocess nuclear waste material, South Korea will announce more “significant” military development which should shock China, Japan, and N Korea. All three countries are already in an outrage mode, right now.
The test involving the actual missile flying will probably be held later this month.
Expensive and worthless tech with no track record of success.
So far this year, the SLBM has accomplished nothing while the much cheaper and lower-tech LBFM has a confirmed kill.
The only real benefit is, per liter, it is cheaper to run on diesel than juice.
How Your LBFM Compares to a Ballistic Missile Submarine
Only eight countries have had the submarine.
An LBFM doesn’t become 3000 ton class until after marriage.
Your wife is proud if her friends say you secretly rode a submarine.
Taxpayers pay for all military operations instead of one sucker who really thinks there is a sick uncle.
If you fill the submarine with seamen, it doesn’t come to you six months later and say, “You gonna be a daddy.”
The submarine doesn’t make your throat drip for a month if you go down on it.
Underwater telecommunications is much slower than telefilipina.
A submarine only sinks the military career of the enemy.
The LBFM opens her hatch when she goes down.
An LBFM only has 3 tubes to fill but you can put two loads in each at the same time.
You don’t risk 25-to-life for keeping the submarine under water until the bubbles stop.
Between LBFM and “other daughter”, someone’s on top of their game today. Days like this he should charge admission.
I am so glad we have access to this high-level briefing on why to avoid buying drinks for strangers. Because a meatball submarine sandwich, while not particularly healthy or within sighting distance of haute cuisine, is a lot better than an incurable STD from sharing a stranger you met in a bar with another stranger you met in a bar.. and the 364,000 other strangers you never met…
Possibly even including the sick uncle, if his name was Hunter…