S. Korea deploys anti-artillery rockets as defense to N. Korea

The “Chunmoo” multiple launch rocket system (Photo courtesy of the Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)

South Korea plans to fight North Korean artillery with some of its own just in case tensions between the two countries reach a boiling point.

The South is in the process of deploying mobile rocket launchers that are capable of destroying a target as large as three soccer fields according to South Korea’s Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DATQ). The specs include both 239-millimeter guided projectiles as well as 227 mm and 130 mm unguided projectiles.

It was made clear in the same statement that these efforts are directed solely at North Korea and its ongoing provocations.

South Korea has begun to place these new weapons near the inter-Korean border ”to incapacitate North Korea’s long-range artillery,” DATQ said in a statement.

The project, named “Chunmoo,” received a budget of approximately 131.4 billion won (US$112.8 million) in 2009.

“The deployment will dramatically improve the anti-artillery combat readiness of our military’s border-area artillery brigades including those on the northwestern front-line islands,” an unnamed military official told Yonhap News Agency.

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