BM25 Musudan
| BM25 Musudan | |
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| General Information | |
| Type | Medium-range missile |
| Local name | Hwasong-10 |
| NATO designation | BM25 Musudan |
| Country of origin |
 North Korea
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| Manufacturer | unknown |
| development | 1990s |
| Commissioning | 2011 |
| Working time | in service |
| Technical specifications | |
| length | 10.75-12.00 m |
| diameter | 1,500 mm |
| Combat weight | 19,000-26,000 kg |
| drive | Liquid rocket engine |
| Range | 2,500-4,000 km |
| Furnishing | |
| steering | Inertial navigation platform |
| Warhead | Nuclear warhead |
| Weapon platforms | Mobile on MAZ-547 / MAZ-7916 truck |
| Lists on the subject | |
The BM25 Musudan is a medium-range ballistic missile developed in North Korea . Other names are Taepodong X , Nodong-B , Rodong-B , Hwasong-10 or Mirim .
development
At the beginning of 2003 it became known that North Korea was working on a new type of missile. Arms experts assume that Russian engineers emigrated from the Makeyev State Missile Center in Miass were involved in the development. The BM25 Musudan was observed for the first time in October 2003 at Mirim airfield. A single test start probably took place in 2007 in Iran . In October 2010, the BM25 Musudan was presented to the public for the first time at a military parade in Pyongyang .
technology
The BM25 Musudan is based on the Soviet R-27 ( NATO : SS-N-6 Serb) SLBM . The missile is a copy of the R-27, which has an extended fuselage section. The BM25 Musudan is a single stage rocket with a 4D10 rocket engine for hypergolic liquid fuel . For use are 1,1-dimethyl hydrazine and fuming . Since this fuel is very corrosive to steel and aluminum , the rocket can only be left in the fueled state for a certain period of time. The propulsion section of the BM25 Musudan is also believed to be used in the Unha launcher . The warhead section appears to be a new development. The payload is 500–1,200 kg and presumably consists of a nuclear warhead. Equipping with a conventional fragmentation warhead is also possible. The maximum range of the rocket is 2,500–4,000 km, depending on the source. The BM25 Musudan is controlled using an inertial navigation platform . Depending on the shooting distance, a precision ( CEP ) of 1,300–2,000 m is achieved. It is possible that a GPS steering system ( Beidou (satellite navigation) or GLONASS ) has been coupled to the control system . In this way, the precision can be improved to 200–300 m. The system is housed on the MAZ-547 / MAZ-7916 -12x12- truck and can therefore be relocated quickly and is difficult to locate; preventive destruction is therefore not reliably possible. The missiles can be launched directly in a missile base or other locations. Each vehicle is armed with a missile.
distribution
It is not known exactly when the BM25 Musudan was introduced to the North Korean armed forces. Series production probably started in 2009. Operational readiness was probably achieved in 2011. It is estimated that North Korea has 12–50 BM25 Musudan missiles.
According to published dispatches from Wikileaks , North Korea is said to have delivered 19 missiles to Iran in 2005, bypassing the missile technology control regime , which are sold there under the name Khorramshahr .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The old Soviet SLBM R-27 and the re-use of the technology for the North Korean and Iranian rocket development ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Spacerockets, accessed: April 4, 2013 (English ).
- ↑ a b c d e Characterizing the North Korean Nuclear Missile Threat , Rand, Access: April 4, 2013 (English).
- ↑ a b c Origins of the Musudan IRBM ( Memento from October 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Armscontrolwonk, accessed: April 4, 2013 (English).
- ↑ S. Korea, US verifying reports on test of new NK missile in Iran , Freerepublic, accessed April 4, 2013 (English).
- ↑ a b c Explaining the Musudan - New Insights on the North Korean SS-N-6 Technology , Markus Schiller & Robert H. Schmucker, May 31, 2012
- ↑ Musudan (BM-25) ( Memento of April 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Missilethreat, access: April 4, 2013 (English).
- ↑ a b The North Korean Musudan Missile , M. Bachmann, DTIG.org, July 2012, pp. 10-11
- ↑ a b No-dong-B , Globalsecurity, accessed April 4, 2013 (English).