South Korean Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

Janiz said:

Well, because there's no FCR. It's just Hanwha Thales EOTS coupled with LIG Nex1 SPS-540K 3D surveillence radar. The 76mm gun is produced by Hyundai WIA. You can read more about it on navyreco

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What you pointed on the first picture is SPG-540K tracking radar, on the second picture you have EOTS.

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Seoul to deploy Asia's first Taurus missiles

The South Korean military will deploy within a few months “jamming proof” air-to-ground guided missiles in a move to quickly enhance the country’s ability to detect and destroy North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction, officials said Tuesday.

Dozens of Taurus missiles that can be carried on F-15K fighters will be delivered from Germany by the end of this year.

The development follows the U.S. government’s approval of exports of military GPS receivers that can be attached to war planes. These are what makes the missiles jamming proof as they would be unaffected by North Korean GPS.

The receivers are capable of handling navigation equations to determine the position, velocity and precise time of the user by processing signals broadcast by U.S. military GPS satellites. The U.S. government has rarely allowed other countries to gain access to the receivers.

With the move, South Korea has become the first Asian country to operate Taurus missiles that have a range of over 500 kilometers.

The military said the F-15K Slam Eagle is designed to penetrate the North’s air defense systems and destroy major military facilities in contingent situations.

If armed with the Taurus missile, a plane can hit North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang while flying over Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul. The military also said the jets can fire off a Taurus over the East Sea and hit the North’s missile launching facility in Hwadae in the northern part of North Korea.

“Taurus missiles combined with GPS receivers and the flight termination system, or FTS, will be deployed in two to three months with the Air Force,” an official from the Defense Acquisition Program Administration said.

Taurus, which is 5.1 meters long and weighs 1,400 kilograms, has a 480 kg warhead and can fly as low as 40 m off the ground at a speed of Mach 0.95 that can allow it to evade enemy radar.

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Seoul is considering adding Raytheon SM-3 missiles to its fleet of Aegis guided missile destroyers to give the ships a ballistic missile defense capability, according to local press reports.

An unidentified South Korean military official told the Yonhap news service last week that Washington and Seoul are set to start discussing for a missile purchase soon as an additional hedge against North Korean ballistic missiles.

The ROK Navy currently fields three Sejong the Great-class guided missile destroyers (DDG-991) with the same radar and launch system as the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class BMD guided missile destroyers. The Koreans are planning three additional ships in the class.

However, it’s unclear how much additional software and computer hardware upgrades the Koreans will need to target the BMD weapons.

The U.S. State Department office that coordinates foreign military sales would not confirm any movement to green light a sale that would equip Republic of Korea Navy destroyers with SM-3s.
“We would refer you to the Republic of Korea to speak to their defense procurement plan,” a State Department spokesman told USNI News on Friday.

News of the SM-3s comes in tandem with a deployment of U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Aerial Defense systems to mainland South Korea. Pentagon officials announced the deployment of the THAAD systems in February.

Since then, the mobile BMD system has drawn the ire of both China and North Korea.

“It is unmistakably a strategic misjudgment for Seoul to violate the core interests of its two strong neighbors, at the cost of its own security, and only in the interests of American hegemony,”

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As to the SM-3s on Korean destroyers, adding the capability is a sound move, Eric Wertheim author of

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told USNI News on Friday
“In light of recent North Korean efforts to bolster offensive missile capabilities, it now makes a lot of sense for the South Koreans to consider the potential acquisition of defensive SM-3s to arm their Aegis warships and to boost ballistic missile defense capabilities,” he said.

A set of 60 SM-3 missiles could cost as much as $763 million,

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Jura said:

according to USNI News Report: South Korea Wants BMD Capability for Guided Missile Destroyers

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On Thursday, the South Korean army held its largest-ever artillery drills. The live-fire exercise involved around 300 artillery systems.

According to an account of the exercise given to the Associated Press by a South Korean army official, “units along the border began firing shells simultaneously in multiple directions on Thursday afternoon.”

The exercise did not draw any reaction, military or otherwise, from North Korea, which has been known to react angrily to exercises on the southern side of the tense border between the two Koreas.

The unusually large size of the South Korean artillery drill and the lack of a North Korean response are striking; live-fire drills are a regular occurrence in South Korea and invite swift reactions from North Korea.

South Korea has a large arsenal of self-propelled, field, and rocket artillery, including 105 mm and 155 mm towed howitzers, 105 mm and155 mm self-propelled howitzers, 81 mm and 107 mm self-propelled mortars, and several multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and multiple rocket launchers (MRL).

Last year,

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, the two Koreas exchanged artillery fire, with no reported casualties on either side.

The exchange started as North Korea fired a 14.5 mm shell into Yeoncheon county in South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province, northwest of Seoul.

The artillery exchanges came amid increased brinkmanship between the two neighbors as Pyongyang strongly protested South Korea’s deployment of a propaganda loudspeaker near the border. South Korea evacuated residents of Yeoncheon county in response to last year’s artillery exchange.

As last summer’s artillery exchanges intensified,

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a “quasi-state of war.”

In 2010, North Korea fired around 170 artillery shells at Yeonpyeong Island, causing considerable damage to civilian and military targets. Both Koreas endured casualties in the exchange, which came seven months after the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan by a North Korean submarine.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had described the 2010 artillery exchange at Yeonpyeong as “one of the gravest incidents since the end of the Korean War.”

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Jura said:

Feb 9, 2016

an update:
Carter: THAAD in Korea 'Going to Happen'

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The United States is preparing to deploy its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) counter missile system to South Korea, but it is unclear how many launchers or interceptors will be part of the battery so its defensive capability remains ambiguous.

A full THAAD battery includes the AN/TPY-2 radar and six to nine M1075 truck-mounted launchers that can carry eight interceptors, for a total of at least 48 interceptors to fully arm a battery (launchers can be reloaded in about 30 minutes if necessary).

In July Seoul and Washington agreed to deploy THAAD in response to threats from North Korea, but US officials have declined to provide further detail.

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) referred questions to US Forces Korea (USFK), which declined to say how many THAAD launchers and interceptors it plans to operate. A USFK spokesperson did say the battery there would be operated by US personnel.

MDA, which buys the systems for the US Army, also declined to say how many interceptors it has fielded so far. The army and contractor Lockheed Martin referred questions to the MDA. Lockheed Martin said it delivered the 100th interceptor in July 2015.

There are five activated US Army THAAD batteries, and these are all full batteries with at least six launchers that can be loaded with 48 interceptors, a source told IHS Jane's . These units must share a limited number of interceptors across all US batteries at least until late next year.

The fiscal year 2017 (FY 2017) budget plan would result in a total inventory of 197 THAAD interceptors for the US Army, MDA director Vice-Admiral James Syring told the House Armed Service subcommittee on strategic forces in April.

That number, which excludes interceptors expended in testing, would mean four full batteries could be fully armed by the end of FY 2017 if the budget is approved and deliveries proceed as planned.

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South Korea’s military is planning to add an unknown number of Hyunmoo ballistic and cruise missiles to its arsenal to counter the growing missile threat stemming from North Korea,

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to unidentified government sources interviewed by Yonhap News Agency.

According to the sources, Seoul is working on a plan to simultaneously eliminate all North Korean missile bases in the event of a conflict. “To accomplish this, the South needs more ballistic missiles at its disposal,” a government official said in August.

South Korea will add new variants of the Hyunmoo (현무, which literally means “Guardian of the Northern Sky”) missile family including the Hyunmoo 2A and 2B ballistic missiles, as well as the Hyunmoo 3 cruise missile—in all likelihood the two latest 3B and 3C variants.

The Hyunmoo 2A surface-to-surface missile has an estimated range of 300 kilometers, whereas the more advanced Hyunmoo 2B—first test-fired in June 2015—has an approximate maximum range of 500 kilometers (310 miles) and is capable of carrying a payload of up of up to 997 kilograms (2,200 pounds).

The Hyunmoo 3B and 3C surface-to-surface cruise missiles have an estimated range of 1000 and 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) respectively. While Hyunmoo cruise missiles have a higher accuracy, the destructive capability of the ballistic variant is substantially greater.

All of the Hyunmoo missiles were developed by the state-run Agency for Defense Development (ADD). As I explained previously (See:

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Ever since 2012, Seoul has been developing a new ballistic missile after the United States and South Korea

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to extend the range of those weapons by up to 800 kilometers (about 500 miles) and carry warheads heavier than the pre-2012 limit of 500kg (1,102 pounds).

However, the agreement stipulates that the payload of missiles with a 500 miles range is limited to 1,100 pounds or below, in order to avoid a regional missile arms race with South Korea’s neighbors – China and Japan (shorter range ballistic missiles can carry up to 4,400 pounds under the rules).

Furthermore, I explained that the Hyunmoo ballistic and cruise missiles “will be a pivotal element in South Korea’s burgeoning preemptive deterrence strategy against the North Korean missile threat, based on the ‘Kill Chain’ – an integrated information, surveillance, and strike system, as well as the Korea Air and Missile Defense (KAMD) systems.”

As I noted elsewhere (See:

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), Seoul has also been working on a submarine-launched ballistic missile for its burgeoning fleet of KSS-III (aka Jangbogo III)-class diesel-electric attack submarine and other boats. However, up until now, no official test of submarine-launched ballistic missile has been confirmed.

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