俄罗斯SS-21弹道导弹

    作者：David C Isby

    在2005年3月8日朝鲜发射了多枚导弹或火箭加剧了亚洲东北部的紧张局势。然而，来自韩国、日本和美国的报道关于发射的武器数量和型号显出分歧。

    尽管没有明确的识别，很有可能地这些是KN-02的测试，一个以俄罗斯SS-21“圣甲虫”（OTR-21/9M79 Tochka）设计为基础。朝鲜据了解已经获得来自叙利亚的Tochka部件当做在两个国家之间在导弹和大模毁灭性武器范围中紧密工作联系的一部分。KN-02在2005年5月被首次报道已经做了一次测试飞行。它可能是北朝鲜FROG系列非制导远程火箭的后继型号。

    其它的报道暗示那个导弹是一种新的近程导弹测试。在3月10日期间在美国众议院军事委员会（House Armed Services Committee）作证前，美驻韩军队司令官Burwell Bell将军认为，三个目标发射象近程固体推进剂导弹“从导弹性质他们在过去增长，一个巨大向前突破”。

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North Korean missile firing heightens regional tension

By David C Isby

A multiple missile or rocket firing by North Korea on 8 March raised tensions in Northeast Asia. However, reports from South Korea, Japan and the US showed divergence as to the number and type of weapons that were fired.

While not explicitly identified, it is likely that these were tests of the KN-02, a design thought to be based on the SS-21 'Scarab' (OTR-21/9M79 Tochka). North Korea is understood to have obtained Tochka hardware from Syria as part of the close working relationship between the two countries in the areas of missiles and weapons of mass destruction. The KN-02 was first reported to have made a test flight in May 2005. It may be a North Korean successor to the FROG series of unguided artillery long-range rockets.

Other reports suggested that the missiles were tests of a new short-range missile. During 10 March testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, General Burwell Bell, combatant commander of US Forces Korea, identified three of the objects fired as short-range solid-propellant missiles that represented "a quantum leap forward from the kind of missiles they have produced in the past".

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