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Unha Debris

One of the most fascinating results of the Unha-3 trajectory and relatively success is the debris!  There is plenty of  video of what looks like the first stage fuel tank. (Here is an image of the full rocket for comparison.) There is also some grainy footage of the tank bobbing in the water.

This ought to be really useful for modeling the missile, from allowing measurement of dimensions to examining the structure of the airframe.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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