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North Korea develops radar-absorbing paint
By Jung Sung-ki
North Korea is believed to have developed a radar absorbing paint to conceal its fighter jets, warships and tanks from surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flown by South Korea and the United States, a report said Monday.
According to the daily Chosun Ilbo, which obtained a classified North Korea field manual published in 2005, North Korea’s military has also built numerous fake foxholes and caves near the Demilitarized Zone to evade precision strikes.
The field manual was smuggled out of the North by a source through Caleb Mission, a South Korean Christian organization in South Chungcheong Province.
The 80-page handbook gives detailed instructions on how to make and apply stealth paint, which absorbs radar waves, the newspaper said.
It also describes how to disguise facilities or equipment and how to make military units look as though they are moving when they are not, it said.
In addition, the handbook describes the covering up of long-range artillery by applying radar-reflective materials.
The North’s military was also ordered to pave fake runways and build fake caves to deceive South Korean and U.S. reconnaissance satellites and aircraft.
Under a military modernization program, South Korea has sought to boost its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability to monitor key facilities in the North.
The South Korean military also focuses on striking North Korean facilities and artillery units hidden in mountain caves and tunnels near the border should war break out.
To that end, the South Korean Air Force is equipping its KF-16 fighter aircraft with precision-guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM).
The test-firing of a JDAM from a KF-16 will be conducted by the year’s end.
The JDAM GBU-31 is a U.S. high-tech guidance tail kit that converts existing unguided free-fall bombs into accurate, all-weather ``smart'' munitions. Guidance is facilitated through a tail control and global positioning system (GPS) aided internal navigation.
The 40,000-dollar-bomb has a glide-range upon release of 24 kilometers and provides a weapon circular error probability of 13 meters. It can penetrate up to 2.4 meters of concrete.
