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Fri, 06/27/2008 - 14:47
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SKorea to buy radars to detect DPRK msl launches
SEOUL, June 27 (Itar-Tass) - South Korea's Defence Appropriation
Program Agency (DAPA) has approved a multi-million project to purchase a new radar system to detect any types of North Korean ballistic missiles at the moment of firing and uplift. Such a radar system will make it possible substantially to raise the country's defence capability against a missile threat from the North, a DAPA official said Thursday.
Seoul's estimate is that North Korea has in service tens if not
hundreds of Taephodong-2 intermediate- and long-range missiles. Such
missile systems with a flight radius of 3,500 to 6,000 km are capable of hitting targets on Alaska or those in the western areas of the Continental USA.
The new radar system fits quite well into Seoul's long-nurtured plans to develop an antiballistic missile system of its own to fight North Korea's guided and ballistic missiles.
At the end of the current year South Korea will get the first batch of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems from Germany. The system comprises a radar and launchers. These systems were previously in service with the German Bundeswehr.
The new radars will be detecting North Korean missiles while Patriot systems will be shooting them down, the DAPA official said. In so doing he declined to reveal an exact amount of funds to be allocated for the new radars, pointing out only that the radars would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Program Agency (DAPA) has approved a multi-million project to purchase a new radar system to detect any types of North Korean ballistic missiles at the moment of firing and uplift. Such a radar system will make it possible substantially to raise the country's defence capability against a missile threat from the North, a DAPA official said Thursday.
Seoul's estimate is that North Korea has in service tens if not
hundreds of Taephodong-2 intermediate- and long-range missiles. Such
missile systems with a flight radius of 3,500 to 6,000 km are capable of hitting targets on Alaska or those in the western areas of the Continental USA.
The new radar system fits quite well into Seoul's long-nurtured plans to develop an antiballistic missile system of its own to fight North Korea's guided and ballistic missiles.
At the end of the current year South Korea will get the first batch of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems from Germany. The system comprises a radar and launchers. These systems were previously in service with the German Bundeswehr.
The new radars will be detecting North Korean missiles while Patriot systems will be shooting them down, the DAPA official said. In so doing he declined to reveal an exact amount of funds to be allocated for the new radars, pointing out only that the radars would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
