Chapter 476 North Korea's Ballistic Missiles
For the Soviet Union, the Scud missile was just a technology from the 1950s, and it can even be calculated that the missile technology obtained from Germany at the end of World War II was completely eliminated. However, the elimination of the Soviet Union does not mean that this weapon can spread at will!
A distinctive feature of ballistic missiles is that the offensive and defensive investment is disproportionate. Ballistic missiles are fast and difficult to intercept. If one hundred million is invested to study missiles, at least one billion is required to develop how to intercept them! In later generations, the ballistic missile defense plan developed by the United States spent huge amounts of money to intercept missiles with known ballistics is very difficult, and intercepting unknown missiles is even more difficult. The previous experiments were not so much a successful interception, but rather a carefully fired air collision! For the attacking party, as long as the direction of the missile reentry, that is, reentering the time-changing orbit, the interceptor can lose its target.
That is still the future! And now, it is even more difficult to intercept ballistic missiles. Even a Scud missile cannot be intercepted by division-level troops!
The North Koreans were simply challenging the Soviet Union's counterscale and exporting tanks to the Iranians, which made the Soviet Union extremely angry. Now, they are secretly exporting ballistic missiles to Iran!
There are many historical statements about North Korea's ballistic missiles, and some even say that the Soviet Union exported Scud missiles to North Korea. This is the beginning of North Korea's ballistic missile industry, but of course this is extremely wrong. You must know that North Korea is determined to develop its military strength and has no determination to develop its economy at all. North Korea's economy is extremely backward and cannot pay for ballistic missiles like the Soviet Union!
North Korea only wants food and weapons! In the past, North Korea was also a bridgehead for the struggle between the East and the West. The Soviet Union supported it for its own strategy, but now? North Korea has been considered an abandoned son in the Soviet Union's strategic layout and has no great effect. The Soviet Union could not export a huge killer such as a Scud missile to North Korea.
Moreover, even before, after the 1960s, North Korea was profiting from the Sino-Soviet conflict, trying to play with the Soviet Union and applaud. Therefore, the Soviet Union was very wary of North Korea, and this was not an obedient little brother at all!
Export to Iraq, that's because Iraq has money! Export to Egypt and Syria is to let them fight Israel!
North Korea also wants to change when it is poor. North Korea's determination to develop its own ballistic missile industry has never changed. North Korea's ballistic missiles were obtained from Egypt.
After the end of the "Six-Day War", Egypt, which was full of anger, was very dissatisfied with the "inaction" Soviet Union at that time. Egypt's relationship with the Soviet Union was getting worse and worse. However, Egypt's development was inseparable from the help of the Soviet Union. Therefore, the self-reliant Egypt decided to seek help from North Korea. North Korea also hoped to train pilots through actual combat, and the two sides hit it off.
Therefore, North Korea sent a large number of outstanding volunteer pilots to Egypt and participated in the "Yongpuja War". During this war, the pilots of the North Korean Air Force fought bravely, helping the Egyptian brothers breathe a sigh of anger. Taking this as an opportunity, the relationship between Egypt and North Korea rose sharply, and Mubarak also established a deep friendship with Kim Il-sung.
At this time, North Korea expressed its hope of obtaining the Scud missile. Without saying a word, Egypt transferred two 17s, namely the Scud missile and the 9117 launch vehicle to North Korea. These weapons were all assisted by the Soviet Union in that year.
The North Korean freighter was transported back to Nampo Port and entered the "January 25 Machinery Factory" under the Second Economic Commission, which is the "Pyongyang Pig Farm". The North Koreans began to imitate it. North Korea's efforts to obtain ballistic missiles finally became a reality. With North Korea's original technical accumulation, soon, North Korea's own missiles were imitated.
After two years of hard work, North Korea's first batch of localized "Scud" missiles were successfully imitated in 1975 and named "Hacheng". Of course, this model was not announced by North Korea itself, but was given to North Korea by the outside world. Hacheng is a county in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. Because I don't know the specific model and title of North Korean missile missiles, I named the missile according to the convention, that is, the region name where a certain type of missile first appeared.
This earliest Huacheng 1 missile is almost the same as its prototype Scud missile, with a total length of 11.37, a beam diameter of 0.88, a launch mass of 5.9 tons, a maximum range of 300, and a 185 kerosene red smoke nitric acid propellant. Due to the lack of high-precision inertial navigation systems, the circumference error of this missile is quite large, exceeding one thousand meters.
In history, the development of North Korea's ballistic missiles came from the Iran-Iran War. At that time, Iraq's Scud missiles were raging on Iran's territory, and Iran urgently needed the same weapons. Therefore, Iran and North Korea reached an agreement to import the Hwaseong 1 tactical missile. In this way, North Korea's ballistic missile industry finally ushered in a healthy development, and used North Korea's funds to continuously improve their weapons! Therefore, the new "Hwaseong" 34 and "Hwaseong" 56 began to appear in North Korea's ballistic missile sequence, with a range increased to 500.
Moreover, based on these experiences, North Korea's new labor ballistic missiles have also entered rapid development.
For North Korea, if they want to develop ballistic missiles, they have to find a funder, while for Iran, if they want to win the Iran-Iraq War, they need to introduce new weapons, and the two sides almost hit it off.
Even now, with Andrei's time travel, the situation has changed a lot, and this result will still not change.
The North Koreans and Iranians got together, but this came together had seriously damaged the interests of the Soviet Union! The tanks exported by North Korea to Iran almost forced the 105th Airborne Division into a desperate situation. Now, once North Korea's ballistic missiles appear in the hands of the Iranians, they will cause casualties to the Soviet army!
Fortunately, the actions of North Korea and Iranians were not as fast as their own. They definitely did not expect the Soviet attack. Therefore, the ballistic missiles transported by these cargo ships were seized by the Soviet army before they could even reach the front line!
Chapter completed!