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Here's the Missile Sub That Would Kick in North Korea's Door
USS Michigan is visiting the Korean peninsula.
In other words, North Korea doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against the U.S. Military.
USS Michigan is visiting the Korean peninsula.
The end of the Cold War in 1991 reduced the number of submarines needed to 14. Four of the older submarines, including the Michigan, were converted into cruise missile submarines by taking the hull space devoted to their Trident II D-5 nuclear ballistic missiles and converting it to house Tomahawk conventional land attack cruise missiles instead. The result is a single submarine that can carry 154 land attack cruise missiles, each of which can travel up to 900 miles and attack a target with a 1,000-pound high explosive warhead with GPS-level accuracy. It's an incredible package of precision firepower that rivals the destructive capability of entire 20th century air forces.
North Korea's ability to detect and strike the Michigan, which could sit hundreds of miles off the Korean peninsula to attack targets on land, is essentially zero. North Korea has no long-range anti-submarine warfare force to speak of.
North Korea's ability to detect and strike the Michigan, which could sit hundreds of miles off the Korean peninsula to attack targets on land, is essentially zero. North Korea has no long-range anti-submarine warfare force to speak of.
In other words, North Korea doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against the U.S. Military.