North Korea - how serious should we take them?

[ABZ RS6]

Laurel Green said:

North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military quoted by Yonhap news agency says. Clicky

Sleep tight pie-boy, mind the septics don't bite.

[Pupp]

So, bluff called then?

[Cobnapint]

Pupp said:

So, bluff called then?

It's not quite the full gauntlet.

If he's stupid enough to test another nuke then that'll be it.

[gruffalo]

Laurel Green said:

North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military quoted by Yonhap news agency says. Clicky

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

[Wacky Racer]

gruffalo said:

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

He'll be strapped onto the next one with a bungee hook,

[Laurel Green]

Wacky Racer said:

He'll be strapped onto the next one with a bungee hook,

Now you see him, now you don't, now you see him...

[eharding]

Laurel Green said:

Wacky Racer said:

He'll be strapped onto the next one with a bungee hook,

Now you see him, now you don't, now you see him...

Could be the most recent failure was as a result of an aerodynamic instability of the missile due to having the director of the previous launch failure strapped to the nose-cone.

[Robertj21a]

gruffalo said:

Laurel Green said:

North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military quoted by Yonhap news agency says. Clicky

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

Unless it's a foreign source interfering with the launch......

[AreOut]

gruffalo said:

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

the designer is probably thinking "with these two prats at the helm of NK & USA I better make it fail"

[Robertj21a]

AreOut said:

gruffalo said:

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

the designer is probably thinking "with these two prats at the helm of NK & USA I better make it fail"

I guess there may be a fairly high turnover at present in the 'Design a rocket for PieMan' office - too many earlier designers have suddenly 'disappeared'.

[Sylvaforever]

AreOut said:

ah OK for some reason I thought it could intercept ICBMs as well

[Lance Catamaran]

Robertj21a said:

AreOut said:

gruffalo said:

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

the designer is probably thinking "with these two prats at the helm of NK & USA I better make it fail"

I guess there may be a fairly high turnover at present in the 'Design a rocket for PieMan' office - too many earlier designers have suddenly 'disappeared'.

It's very obvious where they're going wrong




They haven't put a pointy bit at the end. How is that going to stick in the ground?

[FourWheelDrift]

Testing continues.

[Pupp]

Regardless of whether stuff works, those tracked carrier/launchers certainly look purposeful... any on EBay yet?

[mickytruelove]

i thought this was all shouty shouty america but today Japan closed down their metro system after news of the latest rocket. There is only so long before they will act. America will be ready to go along with it as its their "thing" , they love bombing countries.

[hidetheelephants]

superkartracer said:

Likes Fast Cars said:

They nothing of note worth attacking for, do they?

No oil
No vast natural resources (OK, some coal apparently)
...

Have I missed something?

They do have vast amounts of rare earth materials ( 2/3rds of the world apparently ) , some mega billions right there to be snatched .

2 points about that; NK doesn't have 2/3rds of the world's rare earth elements and rare earths aren't very rare, so their value as unprocessed ore is low. One use of REEs is in optical systems like lasers, which segues neatly into...

Robertj21a said:

gruffalo said:

Laurel Green said:

North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean military quoted by Yonhap news agency says. Clicky

And again it blew up just after launch.

The designer must be sweating a little I would have thought.

Unless it's a foreign source interfering with the launch......

If the US has got an updated version of the YAL-1 laser system or a space-based laser it's feasible they could have zapped it on the sly in order to frustrate Fatty Kim.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Sunday 30th April 04:52

[glazbagun]

Pupp said:

Regardless of whether stuff works, those tracked carrier/launchers certainly look purposeful... any on EBay yet?

Ling should get one when she's bored of hers

https://www.lingscars.com/feature/truck.php

[lost in espace]

Road in NK:

total: 25,554 km
paved: 724 km
unpaved: 24,830 km (2006)

I find it amazing that they have nuclear weapons and only a tiny road network, get your priorities right.

[bazza white]

What's needed is one of their missiles to be a bit wobbly on the launchpad and just tip north a bit on takeoff and land in China.

Are nk missiles guided or more of a case of face in direction and light the blue touch paper.

[skyrover]

Inertial guidance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_...