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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korean Missile shot off today could reach the USA.
2017-07-04


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Quote from: dodo on Today at 11:01 AM

Please excuse the novice question, but an article today in CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/03/asia/north-korea-missile-japan-waters/index.html

claims figures of 930 Km range and 2500 Km altitude... aren't these numbers swapped?

The article keeps speaking of altitudes in the few thousand Km, which seems odd, and I wondered if it's constantly confusing range and altitude figures.

According to Wikipedia ("Flight phases"), a typical ICBM would reach an apogee of 1200 Km (which is 12 times over the Karman line, and still seems pretty high to me).

Numbers are correct - missiles are sometimes launched on lofted trajectory in order not to openly announce their range for diplomatic reasons

In this case (Hwasong-14) estimated max range puts in into ICBM category
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