More like, for cruise missiles.
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You are right, but i was wondering if they'd develop something like UKSK able to load mixes of both cruise missiles, antiship missiles and various SAMs. Though perhaps Amnok is too small for that, however the new large frigate is likely to have such VLS system. Has a name been assigned to the new frigates btw?
If it can load both cruise, anti-ship and SAMs, it would more like Chinese GJB 5860-2006.
And that makes sense. People often focus on how far North Korea-Russia military cooperation will go, forgetting that China is the country with the most surprising deals.
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New satellite image of North Korea's new frigateUser ‘hufden’ of a Russian forum posted another picture, indicating that it is from 29 March 2025,
so it is definitely not an April 1 joke, but the Reuters one is also true.
The photo of ‘hufden’ is of better quality, so I still tried to estimate the size of the North Korean frigate by aligning this one as closely as possible with another in which the floating dock is seen.
The red lines are +/- to fully align the outline floating dock + bow of the frigate with the pier elements of the other satellite photo.
The white lines are what I personally believe to be the frigate's outline.
Already from the dimensions of the floating dock of about 125 metres, visually the frigate is longer.
Then I tried to work out the dimensions of what I consider the outline of the frigate, which led me to assume a length of about 140 metres.
Of course, this is always a measurement made empirically and therefore an approximate one, which in the future will certainly be confirmed (+/-) by experts with new, even better defined images, or refutedcompletely.
They write:
"While the netting prevents detailed measurement, the FFG is approximately 140 meters long, making it the largest warship manufactured in North Korea."
This seems to confirm the empirical measurements I made
It is difficult to state the displacement, only as an example the Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov
Dimensions (m): Length: 135, Beam: 16
Displacement (tons):Standard: 4500, Full load: 5400
Therefore, if the dimensions of the North Korean frigate are confirmed, the Full load displacement should equal or even exceed that of the Russian frigate
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If you look at this photo and the previous ones on board the floating dock, the frigate has been positioned with the bow of the ship well outside the floating dock, which would lead one to think that before launching her in the water they have to carry out work to install the bow sonar and external bulb.
This hypothesis is based on photographs taken when the frigate was in the shipyard. The position of the hull did not allow for the sonar to be installed because it was too close to the ground, and even where it should have been installed, it rested directly on the bogies.
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