On September 28, a new ballistic missile with a hypersonic combat unit was held in the DPRK, which is similar to the combat part of the Pershing-2 rocket. In the Hwasong-8 rocket, for the first time in North Korea, a new fuel storage technology and a managed planning hypersonic combat part were applied. The authors of the BMPD military blog called the feature of the new Hypersonic Rocket DPRK.
In the report of the Central Telegraph Agency, the DPRK (CATC) states that the test launch of the rocket was held under the leadership of the North Korea National Defense Academy. During the start, it was possible to confirm the characteristics of the rocket and the hypersonic combat unit.
Tsack emphasizes that the work on the creation of a new rocket was among the first priorities set on the VIII Congress of the Korea Labor Party. Hwasong-8 became the first rocket of the DPRK in which an ampulized storage of liquid fuel was applied. This technology provides long-term rocket content on combat duty.
The characteristics of the rocket are not communicated. The authors of the military blog BMPD noted the external similarity of the combat part of Hwasong-8 with a corrected combat part of the American ballistic rocket of the Pershing-2 medium range. The maneuvering combat unit of the American missile equipped with the Radar Digital Area Guidance (RADAG) homing system.
Previously, North Korea conducted a number of test starts. So, according to the South Korean newspaper Yonhap, September 11 and 12 in the DPRK passed the test of a large range of a large range. Later, the tank reported on the launch of two missiles of low-range from the train.