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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his country to quickly start the mass production of suicide drones after overseeing a test of the weapon, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on November 15.
Photos published by the state-run news agency show the North Korean leader and several other officials at the launch site. The photos also show a car and a tank being destroyed by what appears to be drones, which have been heavily blurred by the agency.
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KCNA said that drones “of various types precisely hit the targets” as part of the test, noting that they can be “used within different striking ranges” and are designed “to precisely attack any enemy targets on the ground and in the sea.”
While overseeing the test, Kim said that the use of such drones in military activities is being expanded around the world and authorities are recognizing that “drones are achieving clear successes in big and small conflicts,” the news agency reported.
The leader also “underscored the need to build a serial production system as early as possible and go into full-scale mass production,” the agency reported, adding that “such objective change urgently calls for updating many parts of military theory.”
The North Korean drone test came as the United States, South Korea and Japan engaged in combined military exercises involving advanced fighter jets and a U.S. aircraft carrier in nearby international waters.
Tensions in the Korean Peninsula began to rise earlier in October. Earlier this year, Kim called South Korea “a foreign country and an apparent hostile country” after North Korea accused Seoul of sending drones over Pyongyang that scattered a “huge number” of anti-North leaflets.
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and an internet connection? in north korea, they have no infrastructure to control these drones. a 5g mobile network or satellites are essential. i can’t imagine how kim will solve this in a country where electricity works only from time to time. all of this would require begging china to build it and sell them the control electronics, but kim can’t pay for it. so it’s just pure propaganda.
south korea propagandist spotted. stop scking uncle sam’s balls. get a life.
tell me something about propaganda. nk will mass produce suicide drones but have no means how to connect them. maybe they can hire liliput north koreans and put them inside , so it will be true kamikadze technology ww2 edition.
now you forget, that russians have clonass, and chinese have beidou, and they are (at least almost) allies. both countries can, if they want, give an access to their satellite navigation systems. perhaps there is already agreement about it. drone in the first picture looks like lancet…
man, propaganda eats away your brain. loitering munition does not work like cruise missile. this is why they call it “wandering”, because it seeks and identify targets. not flying directly at a fixed gps position. a key component is the data connection. it’s the most technically difficult part, and that’s the real reason why the us has backed musk’s starlink. a 5g sim card can do a similar job. if there is no 5g, the last option is a satellite sim. north korea has nothing of it.
that’s what they call export oriented industrial production… in south korea…
when in rome …. drones are the new fad in modern warfare .who invented them who has that patent ? someone floating around in a super yacht no doubt guzzling uo thousands of gallons of diesel to travel almost nowhere at all.
nice to see and a overtime step in the right direction but what the hack they use a beamer (bmw) for target prsctice?