#Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades publishes footage of apparent new 'suicide drones' launched against #Israel
While the canard design of #Hamas 'Shihab' (left) draws comparison with #Iran Ababil-2 (top right) and #Houthi Qasef-1/2 (bottom right), it is clearly a more compact unique design
Interesting that #Hamas 'Shihab' is shown using two different types of engine.
One of #Hamas 'Shihab' engine types is very similar to that found on #Houthi 'Qasef-1' believed to be a commercially available #China origin "DLE111" designed for RC aircraft dlengine.com/en/rcengine/dl…
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For those unable to access here is the background bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… and a few select 'Scud' pricing data points (posted under 'fair use' research)
1x 'Scud-C' (Hwasong-6?)
Range = 500km
$3.8m HE (High Explosive) Warhead [Based on 5 unit buy]
$3.3m Thermobaric [3]
$3.2m Cluster [3]
With reported 450km range & 37km apogee certainly sounds like #NorthKorea conducted their seventh and eighth successful tests of new KN-23 SRBM in just over two months en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN201908…
#NorthKorea latest missile launches were reportedly Kwail, South Hwanghae Province (Blue Arrow)
@NTI_WMD great historic data set indicates this to be a previously unused location notable further South than normal
What we long expected was follow on design to the 🇰🇵Gorae ballistic missile submarine (SSB) (left) launched in 2014 what we saw may have been a converted 50's era 🇷🇺Romeo / 🇨🇳Type-033 attack submarine (SSK) (right)
Similarities between #NorthKorea ‘newly built submarine’ and existing Type-033 Romeo SSK