Israeli intelligence sources suspect that North Korea has manufactured some advanced weapon systems based on Israeli technology using reverse engineering. This, after receiving some of the systems from its “allies” in the Middle East.
“I suspect that the North Koreans received thee Israeli systems that fell in the hands of some proxies of the Iranian regime in the area,” a source said. He was reluctant to be more specific but it can be understood that the most probable sources are the Houthi rebels in Yemen. This proxy attacked Israel with cruise missiles and armed drones since the war broke out on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated.
North Korea has unveiled loitering weapon systems that resemble Israeli systems. On Aug. 26 this year, North Korea revealed 2 types of loitering Kamikaze UAVs, as part of the country’s leader Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Drone Institute of the Academy of Defense Sciences. DPRK authorities published heavily pixeled blurred photos of the systems.
According to an intelligence assessment made by two Israeli experts Yair Ramati and Tal Inbr, one system is small and tube launched while the second is a relatively large UAV. Both are equipped with presumably same gambled EO payload.
According to the experts, the new systems are very similar in appearance to Israeli systems – Uvision’s Hero 400 and IAI’s Harop – both of which are “man in the loop” strike systems. The experts say that the tube-launched loitering UAV resembles the Hero 400. The launch tube is round, and the launch is conducted using gas generator that pushes at high acceleration the bird while ejecting the sabot. It is electrically powered. The loitering munition is using LOS data link to monitor it along the mission.
The other system, according to the experts, resembles the Harop. This one uses a piston engine and a small rejectable rocket booster for takeoff. The experts point to the fact that in the images, the vehicle is launched from a crude launch platform . They add that operational systems will most probably fit into a container and be mounted on a truck. They assess that the expected loitering time would be 6 to 10 hours.
“Provided that DPRK presentation is real and not fake, there are a few impacts: DPRK is mastering the technologies required for developing loitering munitions; however, they choose to mimic existing outer configurations. These are not clones of either the Russian Lancet 3 or the Iranian Shahed 136 . The North Korean Harop clone is not yet operational. DPRK can produce quantities of such loitering systems and market it to different clients, globally. Such loitering systems are effective in reasonable ranges from the front, if line-of-sight (LOS) is available.”
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