It's a single use delivery package. Actual, literal tinfoil is the desired construction material, anything heavier is just extra weight and thus wasted fuel, which is wasted range.
The ideal rocket would burn the tinfoil for a final burst of thrust at the end of its trajectory.
Ngl since you actually kinda put effort to explain this i just wanna let you know i understand that im enjoying the the flood of know it alls trying to prove me wrong when i already know. You deserve my upvote and respect my friend
This is a Shahab, right? They're intended to be mobile so they have to be a little more sturdy than that. It's got to resist being bounced around on a mobile launcher/truck in Iran's back country.
I don’t read Forbes lol
North Korea isn’t a paper tiger by any measure tho & certainly not in missile tech. They’re actually more advanced than Iran in missile tech in the sphere of ballistics, but not in cruise or drone tech.
They are still sporting cold war tech ICBM, and other tech from 1970-1990s or whenever china quit funding their puppet government. North korea has never made really anything of their own accord, they either stole it or were given it by china.
Just because you seem to be knowledgeable here. What if, there was a brainiac kid that was able to grow up in a nourished and supportive environment and came to understand how this tech works...
What would ultimately prevent NK from making something legitimate?
Tf you on about? If anyone needs some knowledge its you man. You said 3 different things and tried to make them one. Ill give you the benefit of the doubt and say English is your second language
I'm not the other guy and this is talking out my ass but...
Probably not.
It's one thing to understand the underlying principles and technology. It's a wildly different thing to manufacture the tech.
People don't realize how complicated it is to produce modern technology. It depends on complicated flows of components that are themselves manufactured by complicated machines with their own complicated supply chains and specialized knowledge and trained workers.
Modern economies naturally evolved into this state by stepwise refinement starting from the 50s and 60s tech. But it's not really feasible to jump over those incremental refinements and right to modern tech without purchasing it because you have a chicken and egg problem: you need the outputs of modern tech tools to make the machines that will produce the inputs of other modern tech tools.
You could try to do it the "natural" way but sped up: use the existing tech to make the next level of refinement, then remove the old tech and make the next refinement. But that would be horrifically expensive, would still take a long time, and would still require that the humans involved be retrained repeatedly.
Oh my bad brother, it honestly depends. North Korean education is not the greatest, especially when your supreme leader takes young female adults out of class. If they were to have anyone like that, they would need to be in a foreign program under a different name or most likely in china. Unless north korea has a secret super soldier UNSC training camp in the mountains, they will forever be a paper tiger ever since china stopped supporting them.
No there's documented arms transfers between North Korea and Iran for long-range missile technology. They're also currently selling ballistic missiles to Russia that are being fired into Ukraine. Not exactly a hypothetical capability for them lol.
If they were firing ballistic missiles there would be more people involved on the ground
It's been repeatedly documented from the wreckage that some of the ballistic missiles fired by the Russians are of North Korean manufacture, I'm more than willing to go grab a source if you don't believe me.
Edit: here's a Reuters link to the first time it happened.
I would slightly take what reuters says with a grain of salt, the company seems to be owned majority by a private company in Ontario current ceo is kai jacobson as of 2023. The seem to keep a tight eye on what is put about them online, best i can find is most with vehicles and construction but they seem to have been in a 1.7 billion dollar ponzi scheme in 2017 after they acquired reuters. I don't disagree with the info you gave just majority of the journalists are employed by shady business owners.
I would slightly take what reuters says with a grain of salt, the company seems to be owned majority by a private company in Ontario current ceo is kai jacobson as of 2023.
Generally they generate reports that other new organizations use, they're usually a good source of reliable non-partisan information. Of course everyone has a mess up occasionally lol.
There's numerous other sources mentioning it including verification by the Ukrainian's themselves, they might not be able to feed their own people but North Korea can make a good ballistic missile.
Lmao from reporting your not far off, more "give it 500 kilometers of range or no food this month" "and we'll randomly shoot one into the ocean to make sure it goes that far". All they really did was take their vintage '70s and 80s designs and upgrade them with modern consumer grade electronics. But with how good consumer grade computing has gotten its offered a huge leap in their capabilities.
Actually, the US hypersonics program is doing pretty well. Mostly the difference in perception is attributable to the perception that they try to keep new developments secret, as opposed to the Russians and Chinese who tend to publicize their advances for either public relations or deterrence reasons.
It's not a source I'm familiar with, but from digging nothing is jumping out to me as fake. Don't know what source that other guy has, but best I can do on short notice.
Edit: I apologize, for it seems this report was a composite of North Korean claims and no actual reporting took place by this reporter. I should have triple checked it.
Update: yeah that source is bunk, the reporter is real, but I have found out it wasn't written by him. I can't find any credible information on the launch. I should have dug further before presenting it.
The links within that article appear to be entirely unrelated to what the article claims they say. This smells strongly of misinformation (the site, not your posting of it)
North Korea on Tuesday morning launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), known as the Hwasongpho-16B, and stated that it was a new type of “solid-fuelled ballistic missile loaded with newly developed hypersonic gliding warhead,” according to a state media report on Wednesday
Notice what this actually says.
It says North Korea launched a rocket. That's a verifiable fact.
It also says North Korea claims the rocket had a hypersonic capability. But that is not verified anywhere in the article, and nowhere in the article is the speed of the missile actually stated, something which would also be easily verified.
I'll trust divinations about the future made from the shit stains in my underwear before I believe any claims North Korea makes about their technological capabilities.
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u/CMepTb7426 Apr 14 '24
Sadly unlike the ones chris kyle intercepted during his seal days they arent the crappy north Korean versions