Kn 17 Rocket News Today

>> what were hearing from defense secretary mattis is articulating a policy thats been somewhat obvious on the ground now for several weeks, and that is the u.s. forces working with coalition partners will try to surround and encircle isis, and then annihilate them, and there wont be any chance for them to escape and potentially go to north america or northern europe and have a terrorist attack there. its a little dit bit of a difference in mosul. they left a western route open. in syria and raq...

According to our reporting. they dont see preparations around the corner. the solid fuel ones they could surprise us with. but the real dangerous one, the kn-17 does need a bit of a lead time and theyre not seeing anything there. one quick thing, it doesnt have fins, so when they do bring it in, they dont have a lot of accuracy. that doesnt mean it isnt a very dangerous weapon. >> how far can it go, hans? >> 2800 miles, i believe is the theoretical range. this one didnt go that far. this only we...

What we learned is when it reentered the atmosphere, it looked like it reentered in tact. it was a controlled reentry. that was all one of the main obstacles that north korea had had on their missile program, on their ballistic missile program. what they did is they shot it straight up in the air. so the arc came down like this. but it was very controlled and they wanted to see if it could establish reentry and do it. it did that successfully. thats a great deal of concern, according to two mili...