well, Soul is within the range of noko's 10000+ cannons,even if noko's nuke were not be considered..brar_w wrote:And NOKO's acquiring a high end SAM system is merely a Chinese news story. Besides, you totally ignored the other items I listed. Its common sense that SOKOs investment in its own fifth generation project is a medium to long term option. However they have plenty of short to medium term options as I have listed. Like I said, given North Korean economy and the chances of them getting a significant amount of these air defense system, this is nothing that they cannot neutralize using their existing F-15Ks.Liu wrote:
SoKo's own "stealth fighter' is still a PPT.it even can not work out tech~demostrator ,let alone prototype.
it took usa/russia/china almost 10 years to turn prototype of their stealth bird to ones in service....
considering that soko's one is still a PPT, S.korea surely has to take much more time,if its own stealth bird project were not to abort.
As mentioned there are plenty of options available to those UAI compatible F-15Ks when it comes to SEAD, DEAD or medium to long range targeting. And as mentioned, a few of these systems without an integrated air, ground and cyberspace command and control is not going to seriously threaten the ROKAF or USAF positioned there. A few more of these systems if heavily discounted/subsidized may allow South Korea to allow another THAAD in on its land and then things can get really interesting especially if you have 2 TPY-2s deployed there.
frankly speaking, without the protection from yankees,soko would have more chance to be asskickef by noko's 1m soldiers.