One missile can scatter a hundred armor-piercing bombs

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One missile can scatter a hundred armor-piercing bombs

A single North Korean ballistic missile can now saturate a square kilometer with shards of metal moving twice the speed of sound, turning precision warfare into total chaos.

Modern North Korean missile tests have revealed a shift from single, heavy warheads to cluster munitions that act like a massive shotgun blast in the sky. One missile can carry over 100 submunitions, each a 20-kilogram bomb designed to fragment into 200 razor-sharp shards. These fragments are powerful enough to punch through light armor at Mach 2, making them devastating against grounded aircraft or supply convoys.

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