The armed forces of North Korea, the Korean People’s Army, on May 30 launched a large salvo using over a dozen new KN-25 600mm rocket artillery systems, deploying both wheeled and tracked variants of the system in a significant show of force. State media outlets highlighted that the demonstration showed that the country was ready to carry out pre-emptive strikes on its adversaries, with 18 long range rockets fired. The KN-25 is by far the worlds longest ranged rocket artillery system in service anywhere in the world outside China, and has an engagement range of approximately 400km - longer than those of many ballistic missile types. Introduced from 2019, there have been multiple indications that the system has been produced on a very large scale, and has been deployed in both nuclear armed and conventionally armed variants. There has also been considerable speculation along Western sources that some variants could carry chemical weapons. The U.S. Congressional Research Service has reported that the system “blurs the line between rocket and missile,” sporting “advanced avionics, inertial and satellite guidance systems, and aerodynamic structures.”
Poster Comment:
Range is up to 400 KM or 248 miles. They would use it at American and South Korean air bases.
They gave some to Putin along with a million plus artillery shells. They also gave Putin a lot of Iskander missiles that have 1,600 pound warheads.
The Russians will have to improve their accuracy before they use them in the Ukraine. Maybe they can use them during the Big Push along with those 3 Kg (6,600 pound) Glide bombs.