Will North Korea Go With Nuclear Submarines After Missile Mishaps?

[rangerrebew]

Will North Korea Go With Nuclear Submarines After Missile Mishaps?
By Andrew West April 12, 2017

 
North Korea has been on a hot streak of powerful threats over the course of the last few months, but no one is sure just how realistic those threats could be.

The government in Pyongyang loves to talk a big game.  Between their longstanding hatred of the United States, and pretty much everyone except for China, the despotic dictatorship has been working for some time on its nuclear weapons technology in an effort to bolster their often laughable position on the world stage.

http://constitution.com/will-north-korea-go-nuclear-submarines-missile-mishaps/

[DB]

Frankly, after all the threats, any NK sub found anywhere near the US or its territories should be quietly sunk in deep water with no warning and never revealed. Their subs should simply disappear.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

If all the knowledge I picked up reading military novels is to be at all trusted it's not nuclear subs we have to worry about it's an ultra quit diesel electric sneaking by on battery power. They don't have any nuclear powered subs, and what we know they have is all pretty old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_North_Korean_ships
Probably make a lot of noise trying to get anywhere.

[geronl]

Frankly, after all the threats, any NK sub found anywhere near the US or its territories should be quietly sunk in deep water with no warning and never revealed. Their subs should simply disappear.

Their subs disappear often through malfunctions. lol

[the_doc]

Their subs disappear often through malfunctions. lol

Yeah, and depth charges and torpedoes can cause some pretty amazing malfunctions.

[geronl]

"Are we lost?" the Captain asked.

"Should we ask for directions?" The Commander asked.

"Shut up and find the lube oil so I can actually fit into this thing already!" KJU demands.

[Restored]

If you are going to have a missile mishap, you don't want to be in a submarine when it happens.

[240B]

Yeah, and depth charges and torpedoes can cause some pretty amazing malfunctions.

That's WWII stuff. This is what we have today.


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[r9etb]

Will North Korea Go With Nuclear Submarines After Missile Mishaps?

Hard to see how that would help, unless they're making nuclear bombs out of the subs themselves.  Sub-launched missiles are more difficult to perfect than land-launched ones.

[the_doc]

That's WWII stuff. This is what we have today.

Thanks for the update.  I knew about some of the new technology--especially the rocket-launched torpedoes--but not in as much detail as you provided.

[240B]

Thanks for the update.  I knew about some of the new technology--especially the rocket-launched torpedoes--but not in as much detail as you provided.

@the_doc
They are basically hunter/killer torpedoes. You launch them to the last known location of the sub, and they will actively hunt, find, and kill the sub autonomously.