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S. Korea close to developing new guided bombs, anti-submarine rocket
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is close to completing the development of
a new anti-submarine rocket and guided bombs that will greatly upgrade its
deterrence capability, a state-run weapons laboratory said Sunday.
The Daejeon-based Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said it could not give
exact dates for the completion of the projects, but hinted development on a
vertically launched anti-submarine rocket (ASROC) is nearly finished.
The rocket system will be deployed on the South Korean Navy's 5,500-ton
Chungmugong Yi Sunshin class destroyers. It will give surface combatants the
ability to attack submarines at long range, the agency said, and could augment
existing short-range anti-submarine torpedoes and older U.S.-made ASROC missiles
and depth charges.
ADD said it is also working to perfect the necessary technology to transform
ordinary air-dropped bombs into precision weapons that can reduce risk to pilots
and minimize damage to non-military targets.
The smart bombs call for sensors and movable wings to be attached to conventional
weapons so they may be dropped farther away from target. The wings allow the
bombs to glide long distances and hit designated targets with considerable
precision, ADD said.
The agency hopes to complete development of the bomb technology by 2012 and aims
to retrofit all conventional, non-guided munitions used by the Air Force with the
new system.
Other weapons under development include a futuristic electrothermal gun that
promises longer range and greater muzzle velocity compared with those using
regular gun powder.
Higher muzzle velocity is needed to penetrate the increasing strength of modern
tank armor, which may eventually be impervious to conventional gunfire.
The agency added it is conducting research to make a type of smart munition that
can attack fortified bunkers and tunnel complexes where troops and weapons may be
hidden.
Without elaborating, the agency said the weapon is similar to the AGM-142 Have
Nap missile used by the United States in Afghanistan to attack dug-in al-Qaida
forces.
yonngong@yna.co.kr
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a new anti-submarine rocket and guided bombs that will greatly upgrade its
deterrence capability, a state-run weapons laboratory said Sunday.
The Daejeon-based Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said it could not give
exact dates for the completion of the projects, but hinted development on a
vertically launched anti-submarine rocket (ASROC) is nearly finished.
The rocket system will be deployed on the South Korean Navy's 5,500-ton
Chungmugong Yi Sunshin class destroyers. It will give surface combatants the
ability to attack submarines at long range, the agency said, and could augment
existing short-range anti-submarine torpedoes and older U.S.-made ASROC missiles
and depth charges.
ADD said it is also working to perfect the necessary technology to transform
ordinary air-dropped bombs into precision weapons that can reduce risk to pilots
and minimize damage to non-military targets.
The smart bombs call for sensors and movable wings to be attached to conventional
weapons so they may be dropped farther away from target. The wings allow the
bombs to glide long distances and hit designated targets with considerable
precision, ADD said.
The agency hopes to complete development of the bomb technology by 2012 and aims
to retrofit all conventional, non-guided munitions used by the Air Force with the
new system.
Other weapons under development include a futuristic electrothermal gun that
promises longer range and greater muzzle velocity compared with those using
regular gun powder.
Higher muzzle velocity is needed to penetrate the increasing strength of modern
tank armor, which may eventually be impervious to conventional gunfire.
The agency added it is conducting research to make a type of smart munition that
can attack fortified bunkers and tunnel complexes where troops and weapons may be
hidden.
Without elaborating, the agency said the weapon is similar to the AGM-142 Have
Nap missile used by the United States in Afghanistan to attack dug-in al-Qaida
forces.
yonngong@yna.co.kr
(END)
