South Korea and the United States for the first time conducted joint exercises of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
the Air Force of South Korea issued a written statement about these exercises, Yonhap reports.
The statement says that the two countries first organized joint BPP exercises.
The South Korean reconnaissance UAVs “RQ-4B Global Hawk” and the American shock UAV “MQ 9 Reaper” took part in the exercises, and the “smart ammunition” GBU-38.
were used.
According to this information, the exercises took place according to the scenario of strike according to the source of enemy provocation. The South Korean BPP collected data on the depicted goals and transferred them to the American UAV, which struck the relevant goals.
A source familiar with the course of the exercises, told Yonhap that at the first stage of the exercise it was not planned to be publicized, but they were declared as a “warning” to Pyongyan after testing North Korea of the intercontinental ballistic missile.
On Thursday, October 31, North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBR) towards the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
Intercontinental ballistic missile of a new type “Shzason-19”, launched by North Korea, has the “largest flight duration” among all the missiles launched so far.