By This seems pretty cool:
South Korea has succeeded in developing a guided missile that is fired into the air before releasing a torpedo against a submarine underwater, the Agency for Defense Development said Monday.
The “Korean Anti-Submarine Missile,” or KASM, will be deployed on the country’s most advanced destroyers starting next year, said the ADD affiliated with the Defense Ministry.
The missile can travel more than 20 kilometers in the air and carries a lightweight torpedo nicknamed “Red Shark.” It took nine years for ADD to develop the rocket system.
ADD officials said South Korea became the second country in the world to develop the anti-submarine missile system.
“The missile can hit an underwater target after evading enemy detection. This will contribute a great deal to upgrading our military capability,” an ADD official said. [Korea Times]
North Korea reportedly has 20+ Romeo class submarines that should these missiles should easily be able to take out. What I am wondering is if South Korea has any plans to export this technology?
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
5:23 am on June 23rd, 2009 1
I wonder what NK is doing with its fleet of subs?
This is one area I expect to hear more news from over the next year or two given Obama's stated intentions + the fact that the GNP is in power in the South and is much less likely to block reporting on NK sub activity in South Korean waters.
5:32 am on June 23rd, 2009 2
Yeah the first thing that popped into mind was ASROC. But I don't think ASROC had that kind of range.
10:25 am on June 23rd, 2009 3
"…the fact that the GNP is in power in the South and is much less likely to block reporting on NK sub activity in South Korean waters."
I haven't seen anything reported about it, so I'd surmise that it has been doing so.
11:45 am on June 23rd, 2009 4
Is this much different from the ASROC the US Navy developed in the 1950′s?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asroc
1:07 pm on June 23rd, 2009 5
Making more every year. They are not high tech, but as I have said before mass has its own quality. During a mass attack they can infiltrate SOF, mine SK harbors, and snipe SK shipping. Some subs can be used for dual attack/defense, but the ones the Norks build and buy fall very solidly into the attack category.
8:13 pm on June 23rd, 2009 6
Or the North hasn’t been as brazen in the use of submersibles like it was in the late 1990s.
I can’t remember hearing the Japanese talking about chasing them either which would tend to support the idea that a drop in activity explains the lack of coverage more than the current government covering it up.