This has to go on a list of perfect driving songs. Every time I hear it, my foot gets a little deeper on the pedal, the braking comes later, I downshift deeper into the powerband, and my kids strapped in the back are frightened when I finally drop them off for school.

This would explain the “double tap” strikes that kills the people rushing in to aid the wounded.

Think of this less like a conventional aircraft, and more like a toy quadcopter. They just scaled up the toy.

All right, I think I’ve got the only appropriate name:

I think part of the conversation also needs to be the training level of the NK warfighter. How much do they actually train to shoot rapidly and for long periods, and what is their accuracy like? How do they compare to the training levels of ROK soldiers?

I would add a “Phase 0: Red Flag Evacuation” Here there would be a cover operation that had “Discovered a trail of smuggled in nuclear components int downtown Seoul via elaborate tunnel system” They can even discover a highly irradiated corpse with plans for a dirty bomb in an apartment somewhere in Northern Seoul.…

Do you sell snacks to the artillery crews or what? Working in the commissary would technically make you “working with” and artillery unit. ;)

You missed the qualification of the statement - that was THE VERY WORST POSSIBLE, not the most likely scenario. In fact, here is what that line said:

You are presuming NK has a ton of artillery that can fire beyond the 35Km from the city to the DMZ. Actually, it would be farther since they aren’t going to park it right at the line.

Honestly I think there is a good chance we’ll see a nuclear detonation in Syria, delivered by Russia on behalf of Assad, and it will be dropped someplace like Raqqa... just before Saudi troops enter the city.

Actually that may be a myth. I’ve seen a convincing case made that the only tube artillery NK has that can hit Seoul is really really old and has a very low fire rate, like minutes per shot, not shots per minute. So rather than carpeting the city in shells, it would be more of a random explosion periodically somewhere…

Thank you, Ken M.

“Hey Farve, what’s that new Root themed Jazz club you like to go to?”

For everyone here who is saying “No big deal, It’s just a shell” and making an analogy to a car with no engine, tranny, and for the sake of example only enough electronics to open the door. No big whup - right?

Well, sort of... education is only part of it. I’d like to point out that many of the most effective Islamic terrorists hitting the US were quite well educated. Engineers even.

I wonder if they support an Iraqi Kurdistan for the worst reason: So they can deport their domestic “Kurdish Problem”?

Thank you for your service, and thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts so clearly on this matter!

Calling it an “Iron Bomb” is also a relic. There is a new type called Cast Ductile Iron Bomb that is supposed to be a replacement for cluster munitions. The future of “Iron Bombs” is both terrifying and smart!

That’s the whole point - a vehicle gets taken out and NO ONE has to stop. Depending on the load in the vehicle, you can either let them have it (say it’s full of rice) or you can nuke it from orbit (if it’s carrying weapons you can hit it with an air strike).

The threat of DPRK shelling of Seoul is overblown. They don’t have alot of the big guns needed to do that shelling, and the ones they do have are old and can’t keep up a sustained barrage. Let’s not touch the idea that their artillery ammunition may not be the freshest out there either.