Norks have a dollar tree edition of russia's "nuclear tsunami" concept. Recent events demand that we ask the question, though: are we sure it isn't the other way around? ITT: info gathering on what the hell Haeil-5-23 actually is.
>SEOUL — North Korea on Friday claimed to have conducted a test of an underwater nuclear weapons system. The official Korean Central News Agency on Friday reported that the test was carried out in response to joint military drills between the United States, South Korea and Japan.
Look how happy the fatman is.
https://reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-conducts-test-underwater-nuclear-weapons-system-kcna-2024-01-19
http://www.hisutton.com/North-Korea-Nuclear-Torpedo-Drone.html
http://www.hisutton.com/North-Korea-Nuclear-Torpedo-Haeil-2.html
That's a nice looking jacket ngl
Should I get the juche youth, effay?
I get the feeling this guy has a great life. Its not really executing people and planning to take over the world, he's having fun.
> DPRK: NATA
>You will never visit the gift shop at Nork NASA and get one of those shirts
It hurts bros
>His crab boats aren't protected by 1200 armored tugboats firing 10,000+ rounds of 14.5mm a minute
Do you even fish?
Circled items:
>Commander of a 60 foot armed tug walks the deck in full dress uniform with wool trench coat to present a professional appearance
>Utterly exposed, will drown in moments if he falls in, easily targeted
>Has a cabin, refuses to use it
>Orders the men to wear practical jumpsuits and safety gear
>Men at the ready and alert but not posturing by manning the guns and pointing them
>Junior 1st mate/Commissar following Captains dress example, pays close attention to the pilot doing his job while the captain watches
>All while within pistol range of a hostile craft filming you
8/10, tight ship.
My guess is they are right on the border line, like within meters of it. At that point the most important thing is to make sure you're in the right place, all the work is being done in the wienerpit Captain's looking in the right place.
And the guns are away because not a war more like border standoff. Most likely they putter the 12 miles out and back daily routine, they don't want trouble.
The picture was taken during a fishing rights pissing contest by a RoK frigate/destoyer.
The crab trawler behind the Nork boat is why the confrontation is happening. The RoK didn't have a valid fishing lisense.
Just got respect for the guy who wears a formal dress uniform while commanding a 60 tugboat and maintains standards.
I like how he got slimmer at one point and then got fat again, because it's a status symbol in his duchy
I dunno. I would assume he's quite paranoid and has to live in constant fear of being assassinated.
>constant fear of being assassinated.
But he's a plant, payed off by China and the USA
>payed
>ignoring the content of the post because of a spelling mistake
Riiiiiiight
shitskin detected. get back to work making my phones, brownie.
Point of fact, he killed his Beijing-aligned family members. Personally, in the case of one uncle, who he shot with a 20mm anti-aircraft gun. The US has no interest in assassinating Kim or ending the Kim dynasty, because reunification would be a disaster for South Korea and because North Korea is fantastic propaganda for why it pays to be friends with America, not Russia or China.
Paul Jong Harrell
Is this a meme poseidon or a serious anti-ship weapon
all nuclear torpedos are meme weapons
>won-store version of a ruble-store concept
oh boy
I've never understood this modern obsession with nuclear torpedoes like they don't "count" as using nuclear weapon on a city just because it was underwater
If you wanna cause a tsunami in Japan, Korea or Guam. It's a good weapon.
It wouldn't cause a tsunami. You vastly overestimate the energy output of a nuke compared to the energy output of an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
not him, but isn't there some underwater mountain range that is theorized that if you set a nuke off in the right way could cause a massive underwater avalanche that would then cause a huge tsunami, or am I just remembering the plot from some game or anime.
there's a Russian news/propaganda video about how the could flood Britain by using nuclear weapons
Probably thinking of the canary islands mega-tsunami scenario. Geodudes decided eventually that the volcano in question will likely collapse piecemeal, not in a catastrophic all-at-once landslide. The original proposal had a massive pulse radiating across the atlantic.
Current top contender for north american mega disaster is probably the cascadia subduction event. Strong PrepHole consensus that it's coming soonish. IIRC - maybe within 30-50 years, probably within 100. Nobody disputes whether it's on its way or if it'll be bad. Just ongoing attempts to parameterize the damage.
you're still going to get nuked by the US in retaliation
Thats not how that works fricking lmao. Do they pay you in stupid juice?
>people still overestimating nukes
a light tsunami has more force than the biggest nuclear weapon we ever devised.
Believe me when I tell you that we can't come close to generating enough energy to cause a significant tsunami except in very select locations with very special topography.
The base surge of an underwater nuclear explosion is powerful locally but it's nothing even close to a tsunami.
that's not how tsunamis work, but what an underwater nuke can do well is create a much more localized huge frickoff wave of water. and that wave is completely saturated in nuclear fallout and turns anything it touches into poison. you don't have to destroy a whole city to take out a major port with one of these, just turn the docks into a radioactive wasteland.
look up the aftermath of the Crossroads Baker test shot and imagine it transposed to the harbor of your choice, it's Beirut meets Fukushima
Crossroads was a complete failure. The objective of the (wasteful) test was to prove that nuclear weapons made all Navies obsolete, but instead proved the exact opposite. Despite being irradiated, every ship was at least recoverable and had to be scuttled in order to cover up the mess.
The entire idea of this "radioactive tsunami" is laughable and Dr. Evil tier.
>The entire idea of this "radioactive tsunami" is laughable and Dr. Evil tier.
the Dr Evil thing is the point, its a component of MAD, the nuclear tsunami concept was never there to counter navies. Its there to poison the coast lines make rebuilding civilisation after nuclear war that much more difficult
No. A key component of MAD is that your weapons are logical and actually work. Moronic superweapons like a dirty bomb or bioweapons only make you look like a mad dog that needs putting down.
>like a dirty bomb
A dirty bomb is just a nuke that's detonated on the ground instead of in the air. It's a toggle they set at launch according to the old launch site tours I've seen
>wave is completely saturated in nuclear fallout and turns anything it touches into poison
go frick yourself doomer. NOOOOOOOOKKKKSS are not nearly as potent as you think they are, specially with the scary, invisible radiation
You can't even begin to comprehend the disparity in power between a nuclear weapon and millennia of tectonic energy being released at once.
Based Norks building nuclear torpedos to prove empirically that Russians are full of shit and Poseidon is not some doomsday weapon
The future of blackmail
>Give us a ton of oil and grain or we'll use a couple of fission bombs to prove your coping and seething is all embarassing turd world posturing
Every nuclear weapon on Earth has a return address built into it in the form of spectroscopic analysis of fission fuel and byproducts. Setting one off anywhere is going to draw a bright red neon arrow directly back at the sender. Sure, you can frick up San Diego or Honolulu or any other port you want. And you will have a few hours to enjoy your victory before your nation becomes a glass lined parking lot. And even if you survive that as an individual leader, you will spend the rest of your short life running from shelter to shelter before someone puts a bomb directly into your anus.
Weapons like this are fricking moronic.
many people could have bought soviet atom bombs during the collapse aswell as Chinese ones maybe.
Not and put them together with a complex delivery system like that. And Russians are fricked but not "lose an entire megaton yield weapon"-fricked, no matter what Hollywood likes to jerk off over.
Also, it won't matter. If it's Russian plutonium, Russia catches the return fire. It's one if the reasons nuclear security is important.
You can literally tell which mine the uranium was taken from, exactly where it was enriched and how long ago from the fallout.
LOL BRO U MAD?
Didn't she also got killed by the poison because it's so fricking volatile and dangerous? To the point where FSB glowies firmly refused to use that shit and resorted to sending chemists as replacement?
You mean the shit that will kill you if you touched a contaminated doorknob 3 months later? If it was Novochok she must have had it in a glass ampule and predosed herself with 2-PAM cloride to survive.
Alot of that lately like how Kimskander was proven to out perform the Iskander.
>all the poor innocent fish who had to die so peewee xi could test his new ripoff wonderweapon
Isn't it enough they have to live in Chinese waters?
Their fisheries are completely fricked.
>Every year, dozens of derelict boats from North Korea wash up on Japanese shores; some of the boats house the remains of their crew. These "ghost ships" are believed to result when North Korean fishermen, often having to travel further out to sea to catch fish due to China's notorious overfishing in N. Korean waters, are lost at sea and succumb to exposure or starvation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_ghost_ships
I don't understand the appeal of these nuclear torpedoes. They can only damage port cities and the water will absorb a huge amount of the blast so you need a huge nuke to make it worth using. Even the best case scenario for interceptors isn't that good so these seem like a waste
Isn’t Kim always stylishly dressed? Not constantly super-conservative but usually casual attire that’s tasteful. Like, you could picture him as a good friend walking on the deck of a small yacht who smiles and waves at you. I wonder if that’s him, or it’s an image his image managers create to engender a disarming, friendly but tasteful upper-class vibe?