North Korea s Special Forces Make up a Sixth of Its Army - and That s Concerning
It is said that you can t manufacture special forces - that is, their quantity and their quality are inversely related.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Even though North Korea s special forces are manufactured it is important to know what it is they do and how well do they do it.
One of the most vital parts of North Korea’s war machine is one that relies the most on so-called “soldier power” skills. North Korea has likely the largest special-forces organization in the world, numbering two hundred thousand men and women trained in unconventional warfare. Pyongyang’s commandos are trained to operate throughout the Korean Peninsula, and possibly beyond, to present an asymmetric threat to its enemies.
The F-16 Falcon’s New Radar Could Make Short Work of Drones and Cruise Missiles
The new radars will also be installed on F-16s in Bahrain, Greece, Indonesia, Korea, Morocco, Singapore, and especially Taiwan, and have been proposed for installation on B-1 and B-52 bombers and FA-18C/D Hornet fighters.
Here s What You Need To Remember: There’s little question that the SABR radar significantly improves the F-16’s effectiveness as it moves towards the final third of service life in the mid-twenty-first century, and particularly improves its potential against cruise missiles and drones, two technologies formerly reserved to Cold War superpowers that are today proliferating rapidly across the globe and playing an ever-increasing role in wars small and large.
The most important naval battle of the war occurred on the opening day of the conflict.
Here s What You Need To Remember: North Korea’s coastal fleet played an important role in the early days of the Korean War in projecting force against it southern neighbor. The vigorous counterattack mounted by ROK and UN naval forces likewise was vital in curtailing that threat and laid the groundwork for the landing at Inchon that ejected Pyongyang’s troops from South Korea, and ultimately threatened the North in turn with invasion.
Just days after North Korea embarked on its steam-roller invasion of its larger but less heavily armed southern neighbor, the United Nations decided it needed to step in and save the besieged Republic of Korea.
While the B-29 was responsible for the three deadliest bombing raids in history the firebombing of Tokyo and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki its successor the B-50 never dropped a bomb in anger.
How Turkey Built One of Europe’s Most Powerful Armies
After the fall of the Soviet Union the Turkish Army downsized, shrinking from approximately 370,000 to 260,000 while shifting to an entirely mechanized force.
Here s What You Need To Remember: As part of Turkey’s contribution to the F-35 program, Turkish defense contractor Roketsan partnered with Lockheed Martin to develop the SOM (Stand Off Missile) cruise missile. SOM is Turkey’s first cruise missile, designed to attack targets both on land and at sea.
Straddling two continents, Turkey has one of the most powerful armed forces in Europe or Asia. Over four hundred thousand strong, Ankara’s armed forces are divided into the Army, Air Force, and Navy. A Special Forces Corps exists and is subordinate directly to the Turkish General Staff. The Turkish military formed a bulwark against the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, facing Bulgarian, Romanian and Soviet forces that in wartime would drive south through Thrace and seiz