Ok, just one quick thought. This thing is HUGE. If @DavidLaBoon is right, it is 24-25 m long, with ~2.5 m diameter. It’s road-mobile, with two stages, therefore storable liquids tech, so it should weigh in at ~120 t launch mass, with 100+ t of hypergolic propellants. 1/2
Adding the TEL weight, only special roads and bridges could support this in fueled condition. And no sane person would drive this ticking bomb through the North Korean countryside. But fueling this behemoth would probably take half a day, and several large tanker trucks. 2/3
So you can’t move this thing fueled, and you can’t fill it at the launch site. This thing makes absolutely no sense at all, except for threat equation games, like sending the message of “we now have a mobile ICBM with MIRVs, be very afraid”. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Achselzuckender Mann" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckender Mann"> 3/3
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