asymetric warfare

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Bernardz wrote:

:Say I built heaps of multiple-rocket launchers built an improved WW2, V1
:jet to hit a city say at 200 miles and then targeted them at an US ally
:cities.
:
:Aiming would be pretty trivial, most modern cities are pretty big anyway
:and so what if a a lot miss? Its not like they cost me much anyway each
:missile.
:
:My missiles shot down are a lot cheaper then the anti missiles the US
:uses anyway.
:
:The make sure that this US ally is aware of your capability. That might
:keep the US out of the conflict.

You've got to build them somewhere.

I presume that they would be built long before the conflict started.


They have to launch from
somewhere. Both of those 'somewheres' can be targeted and obliterated
in pretty short order.

We could not do it in Iraq. Mobile launchers are very difficult to take
out.




:This strategy seems to work for the North Koreans.

Well, no. What works for the North Koreans is a bunch of artillery
and a huge army sitting poised to attack South Korea, whose capital is
right up there by the border.

Its a bit of both. In the event of a conflict the army gives the North
Koreans time to attack Seoul by long range artillery and rocket
launchers. Most of their artillery is short and medium range artillery
built to hit the DMZ and the area south of it, it cannot reach Seoul.


Jane's International Defense Review however states that

North Korean long range artillery can deliver 1,5kT of high explosives
in Seoul within one hour using 28,152 artillery rounds and rockets.

1,5kT/hour mean 36kT/day, which is something like 2 Nagasaki-size atom
bombs a day.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oplan-5027.htm

States that "North Korea has about 500 long-range artillery tubes within
range of Seoul...is within range of the 170mm Koksan gun and two hundred
240mm multiple-rocket launchers...The proximity of these long-range
systems to the Demilitarized Zone threatens all of Seoul with
devastating attacks."

Such an attack might result in a 100,000 dead in Seoul in the first day.

IRBMs and nuclear warheads help, too.



Agreed. Particularly as they maybe able to hit Japan.



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