Originally posted by: heyheybooboo
Originally posted by: Superself
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: OCguy
This is all bad news.
The little bubble that the niave Southern right, and the hippy dove left have been living in can evaporate very quickly when 10,000 US Soldiers become casualties from NK arty.
I believe the US soldiers are no where near where the artillery can hit them.
Our troops are to the far south.
The people of Seoul will take an absolute pounding though, all out war could result in 100,000 dead South Koreans within a few days if not hours depending on how well the North artillery does.
Of course the second the artillery starts falling our B-52s etc are in the air on the way to carpet bomb the area big time. But it would be at least 12 hours before they could be on station and doing anything worth while.
The real BIG question is whether you use battle field nukes or not. If North Korean artillery starts to kill thousands and thousands of civilians in Seoul would we risk using some small nukes to end the artillery and thus saves perhaps 100,000+ lives?
That is the kind of decision that will haunt the people in charge for the rest of their lives.
Let's hope we don't get to that point.
"North Korea has 2 artillery corps and 30 artillery brigades equipped with 120mm self-propelled guns, 152mm self-propelled mortars, 170mm guns with a range of 50 km, 240 mm multiple rocket launchers with a range of 45 km, and other heavy guns. North Korea has about 18,000 heavy guns. North Korea's 170mm Goksan gun and 240mm multiple-tube rocket launchers are the most powerful guns of the world. These guns can lob shells as far south as Suwon miles beyond Seoul. The big guns are hidden in caves. Many of them are mounted on rails and can fire in all directions. They can rain 500,000 conventional and biochemical shells per hour on US troops near the DMZ. The US army bases at Yijong-bu, Paju, Yon-chun, Munsan, Ding-gu-chun, and Pochun will be obliterated in a matter of hours. "
N Korea Military Tactics
It truly pains me but your
FEAR (like yur good buddy OCGuy with "OMG! 10K DEAD US Soldiers!) is fulla sheet.
And 'Who dah Fuk is Han Ho Suk?'
Seoul, Korea,
at its closest point to the DMZ is at the very limit of the overwhelming majority of NK artillery. And if you knew anything about Korea (which clearly you don't) you would understand the only reason it is that close is that the DMZ makes a 10 mile 'dip' to the southeast toward Seoul in that area.
Furthermore, it's ridiculous to think that at the first sign of
any mobilization that the ROK?s alert status would rise to meet the challenge
backed by the full force and effect of the US armed forces.
The ROK is prep'ed to respond
in seconds to saturate NK artillery placements - ROK systems located well beyond the reach of any NK artillery. In the last decade the ROK has deployed guided missile systems capable of reaching Pyongyang and every major North Korean city.
Any once again demonstrating that you and OCGuy clearly have no clue the ONLY senario that seriously worries the ROK and US is the modern version of MAD - a determination by NK to launch a 'suicide' attack into the south.
And while Kimg Jung Ill is a nut, he ain't that big of a nut.
Originally posted by: K1052
The 152mm guns and below would have to be moved closer to the border to be effective and would be easy targets for pretty much anything. The 170mm guns and 240mm BM-24s are the primary concern.
I'm guessing the general counter artillery plan is to throw as many sub-munitions using MLRS, cruise missiles, and aircraft onto the artillery sites as humanly possible. It's unlikely NK could sustain that high rate of fire.
What K (and *GASP* to some extent Johnnie) said.