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The DPRK's military factories make modern missile systems and long-range self-propelled guns that can compete with the best foreign analogues.
According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , for example, KN-09 multiple launch rocket systems capable of hitting 220 km. Their caliber is 300 mm. The weight of the head part is 190 kg.
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The guidance is inertial, and data from GLONASS or Beidou navigation satellites are also used to improve the accuracy of the hit.
In addition, there is a 600-mm MLRS KN-25 "super-large caliber". So, during the tests in August 2019, such missiles flew about 380 kilometers and reached an altitude of 97 kilometers. Their length, according to some estimates, is 8.2 m, weight - 3000 kg.
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You can also recall the 240-mm MLRS M1985 / M1991 created in the early 80s, hitting targets at a distance of at least 65,000 m.
If we talk about conventional self-propelled guns, then it is necessary to mention the long-range 170-mm self-propelled artillery installations M-1989 Koksan. It is believed that such guns can "throw" conventional high-explosive fragmentation ammunition at 40,000 m, active-reactive - up to 60,000 m. Ammunition on board - twelve shots.
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The mass of the self-propelled gun itself is about 40,000 kg. The maximum speed on good roads is at least 50 km/h. The crew is seven people. Elements of the T-62 tank are widely used in the chassis design.
There is also a relatively new self-propelled gun, first shown in 2018, called M2018 in foreign sources. Its caliber is still unknown for sure, perhaps it is the traditional 152 mm, but it is quite possible that it is already 155 mm. Experts are sure that it can work at distances of at least forty kilometers.
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