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Valiant 1002

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I wonder how the Hwasong-11D and 600mm MLRS will be used differently in terms of tactics and doctrine, when they seem to have quite similar warhead weights, can both carry tactical nuclear warheads (Hwasan-31) and their ranges are not "too different" (Hwasong-11D is 300km vs 600mm MLRS is 400km)?
 
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Higher value, higher priority, well defended targets for SRBMs I guess?

Kimscanders now routinely strike Kiev, and almost certainly DPRK officers are very well engagement in empirical calculations that make it happen.

MLRS absolutely can hit such targets(and they can simply burn through AA stocks of most nations), but in a grand scheme of things it's less reliable weapon per round v defended target, here and now.

On the other hand, SRBMs are expensive, proper missiles, limited by production complexity of their solid fuel rocket engines.
Ones that evolved from MLRS can and do fly on pressed dry grass simple, mass-produced "artillery" chemistry.
 
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Right so looks like they put together the hull modules seen in the previous months, and the tarp is on as well. So if the shipyard works as fast on it as DDG-51 was, probably a launch is fairly close, what you think? Summer, maybe autumn?
 
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mack8 said:
Right so looks like they put together the hull modules seen in the previous months, and the tarp is on as well. So if the shipyard works as fast on it as DDG-51 was, probably a launch is fairly close, what you think? Summer, maybe autumn?
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I downloaded the photo and tried to improve it, zooming in, at the moment the tarpaulins do not completely cover the ship, on the contrary, you can see numerous elements, including the holes where the silos for the VLS will later be installed at the stern of the ship.
 
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sahureka said:
another satellite image, better quality and without protective tarpaulins of the DDG i under construction at the Hambuk shipyard, Chongjin, 12 May 2025, Copyright © 2025 by Maxar Technologies.
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Looking at the level of completion of the ship, she will probably be completed and launched this Fall.
 
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This also makes me wonder - not sure if I've mentioned this before - what's going on with Najin Shipyard?

Historically, this was where the larger warships of the NK Eastern Fleet were built.
 
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Valiant 1002 said:
This also makes me wonder - not sure if I've mentioned this before - what's going on with Najin Shipyard?

Historically, this was where the larger warships of the NK Eastern Fleet were built.
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Do we know where the big SSBN is being built? If it's Najin then we got our answer.
 
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