North Korea presents its nuclear submarine*

[SLD]

Romeo? Those were shitty in the 80’s.

 

[Elixir]

Even a shitty sub outfitted with a shitty nuke can kill millions of people. Sure, it’ll prob’ly get sunk right after launch but so what?

 

[TomC]

Is it just me, or does this sound entirely like a publicity stunt for domestic consumption? Not a credible military threat to anyone as much as the crew?
Tom

 

[TomC]

I also can't help but wonder why Bush II failed so miserably to neutralize this threat back in 2001?
Tom

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Is it just me, or does this sound entirely like a publicity stunt for domestic consumption? Not a credible military threat to anyone as much as the crew?
Tom

I think it's more nuclear sabre rattling. The trip to South Korea is short enough they might be able to pull it off. Hopeless in the open ocean but if they stay near shore and crept in on batteries they might be able to get something off. I'm sure the crew wouldn't know how suicidal doing so would be, though.

 

[steve_bank]

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I listed to a BBC show The Lazarus Heist on the BBC tonight. It is about how NK is funding and making to build nuclear weapons.

Th emanate was 1/3 of mil tray spending comes from cyber crime. In the show at one pint there was a live NK news report during a missile launch in the background. You did not need to speak North Korean, it was extreme hyper rants.

In the mind of NK I;d say tey think it is a dterence to a Amercan land invasion. As with Russia why would we invade? It makes no sense.

NK is isolated and inbred. They all may be culturally conditioned to a hyper fear. Including the guy at the top.

Nothing is sad about our actual use of nuclear weapons policy.

If an ICBM was on a trajectory to hit the USA what wold we do? Would we launch o warning?

Do we have subs always in ahirt missile range f NK? The game goes both ways. What happens in the future depends on how irrational the NK leader may be. Isolation like NK breeds craziness. No counterbalancing forces.

There is a craziness to China, Russia, ad NK. Same kind of the Cold War crazy propaganda rants.

Back in the day before 24.7 news and Internet there was global shortwave radio.

I listed to Russia, China, and other communist stations. What we hear is the same kind of crazy rants.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Do we have subs always in ahirt missile range f NK? The game goes both ways. What happens in the future depends on how irrational the NK leader may be. Isolation like NK breeds craziness. No counterbalancing forces.

Our boomers can hit pretty much anything in the northern hemisphere as soon as they sail. I don't know if they can launch on the surface or if they must have enough water to dive a little bit before launching. They are designed to launch from periscope depth, the sub couldn't survive the motor actually lighting in the tube (remember what the Super Heavy did to it's launch pad--and a submerged sub has no place for the gases to go), they're ejected upwards with enough force to get them out of the water before the motor lights. I don't know what happens if there isn't the water above.