South Korea Looking to Develop Advanced Domestic Missile Defense System to Counter North Korea
It takes many years of development and testing to field a missile defense system this is why THAAD as well as the Patriot batteries in South Korea remain so important to the defense of Korea:
South Korea’s Army said Thursday it is pushing to acquire an advanced interception system to defend against evolving missile and artillery threats from North Korea.
It unveiled the plan for the acquisition of the low altitude missile defense-II (LAMD-II) system that is intended to shoot down North Korea’s new ballistic missiles, such as the KN-23 and the KN-24, and its super-large artillery rockets in a report for an annual parliamentary audit.
LAMD-II will be an improved version of the LAMD system that Seoul seeks to develop by 2029.
The Army added that it is also planning for the early development of the Korean Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile-II (KTSSM-II) as part of efforts to bolster the military’s Kill Chain preemptive strike platform against the nuclear-armed North. It aims to develop the KTSSM-II by 2030, earlier than its initial target year of 2034.
Yonhap
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This is a sucker’s game.
We are seeing this in Ukraine.
Russia isn’t buying Iranian suicide drones because they are losing.
They are buying Iranian suicide drones because they cost about $20,000…
…and they cost about a million American healthcare/infrastructure/education/etc dollars to shoot down… or try to shoot down.
At least 40% make it to their target where they put an end to transportation and communications and electricity exports to NATO countries.
And the anti-drone missiles go somewhere… generally a residential neighborhood.
Apparently all this “shows Russia’s growing weakness”… commentary brought to you by the same people who say “Sick as a dog? That shows the vaccine is working.”
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