Author: Zhukov.
The Americans recently docked three aircraft carriers directly around the peninsula, and the mobilization of troops was very lively.
However, the U.S. military has ignored the strongest killer weapon of the Korean People's Army's rocket force.
The U.S. military simply could not imagine that the DPRK military has changed to a preemptive nuclear strike strategy, and that the DPRK has an extremely powerful nuclear system, and the performance of its intercontinental missiles has surpassed the same model of the U.S. military in many aspects. For example, the Hwasong-18 intercontinental missile of the North Korean army is much stronger than the existing missiles of the US military.
Why? Is the performance of the Hwasong-18 missile stronger than the Minuteman 3 of the US military?
On December 19, 2023, the North Korean military tested a Hwasong-18 intercontinental missile, according to official data, the warhead of the Hwasong-18 flew at an altitude of 6,500 kilometers, a flight distance of 1,000 kilometers, and a flight time of less than 74 minutes. In the end, the Hwasong-18 ICBM fell into the waters near North Korea and did not pose a direct threat to the surrounding countries.
This is not the first time that North Korea has tested the Hwasong-18, and there will be two more launches of the Hwasong-18 throughout 2023. These launches were all under the control of North Korea, and all the missiles eventually fell into North Korean mainland waters, proving that North Korea's ability to track intercontinental missiles is extremely powerful.
So how strong is Mars 18 in **?
The first point is that the US military simply cannot search.
The Hwasong-18 missile launcher is an all-round terrain launcher, whether it is grass or farmland, the DPRK rocket force can directly erect missile launchers and launch missiles directly.
After launching, the missile launcher quickly withdrew, and the whole process was completed in one go in a short time.
Americans want to track? Sorry, this all-round terrain launcher can be disguised as a variety of civilian trucks to launch missiles at any time, and US satellites cannot do 24-hour real-time tracking of the North Korean army's Hwasong-18 missile launcher, which is to a large extent to achieve the concealment and suddenness of the Hwasong-18 launch. Minuteman 3 can't do that. The launch position of the Minuteman 3 is fixed.
The second point is that in terms of refueling, the Hwasong-18 is a solid-fuel intercontinental missile, which can be launched by directly refueling. As for the Minuteman-3 missile, the Americans have to save and refill the fuel in advance, and the liquid-fuel ICBM is indeed inferior to the solid-fuel ICBM in terms of combat effectiveness.
Thirdly, in terms of strike power, the warhead of the Hwasong-18 ICBM reached 500,000 tons of TNT (single warhead). If the DPRK military is replaced with three sub-guided nuclear warheads, the combined strike effect will reach 600,000 tons of TNT, which is no less than the Trident submarine-launched intercontinental missile, which makes the Hwasong-18 intercontinental missile strike capability reach the world's advanced level and has the ability to comprehensively nuclear retaliate against major cities in the United States.
The combat effectiveness of the Minuteman-3 is far inferior to that of the Hwasong-18, and it is no wonder that the Americans want to replace the ICBMs, because the Minuteman-3 is indeed very backward. However, according to the current financial revenues of the Americans, the striking effect of the new ICBM is bound to be unsatisfactory.
So to say - the Americans' ICBMs are already lagging behind the North Korean army in an all-round way. The DPRK military has an inferior navy and air force to the United States, but the DPRK has built a rocket force much more powerful than the US military, forcing the United States not to dare to launch a large-scale war of aggression against the DPRK, which is very helpful in maintaining peace and security in the DPRK itself. The Americans should realize that North Korea has sufficient strength to maintain its own peace, and if it is really opened, the Americans will lose badly.
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