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Ну вот и Россия в Северную Корею - ждемс реакшион мирового сообщества?
Приветствую !
Washington Times
February 9, 2001
Inside The Ring
By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough
SA-18s to North Korea
Russia is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to North Korea, according
to U.S. intelligence officials.
The North Koreans are negotiating to buy Moscow's most advanced
shoulder-fired missile, the SA-18, we are told.
Pyongyang wants as many as 3,000 SA-18s to plug vulnerabilities in its air
defenses.
The North Korean military knows South Korea and the United States will rely
on attacks by overwhelming numbers of
warplanes against North Korea should conflict break out.
North Korea's strategy calls for massive forward-deployed artillery, rocket
and ballistic missile attacks in the early stage of
a military offensive. This is because the North's ability to sustain a
conflict is limited to about a week of fighting, before it
runs out of weaponry.
The SA-18s would be a new air defense capability. The North's current
surface-to-air missile forces consist of fixed SA-2s,
SA-3s and SA-5s. It's current shoulder-fired missiles include thousands of
older SA-7s.
The SA-18 is similar in design to the U.S. Stinger anti-aircraft missile
that homes in on targets using an infrared tracking
system. The SA-18, also known in the Pentagon as the "Stinger-ski," has a
similar infrared tracker and range of about three
miles.
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