The North Korean army will be equipped with a 240 mm rocket launcher
| North Korea's Central News Agency announced that the country will equip Pyongyang's army with multiple rocket launchers with 240mm shells this year. |
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North Korea’s Central News Agency also added that a “significant change” is coming to the country’s artillery forces. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un yesterday oversaw a live test of a technically upgraded missile system.
North Korea’s announcement comes as analysts say the nuclear-armed country is likely to speed up testing and production of artillery and cruise missiles, and then sell them to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine. will send.
Pyongyang announced in February that it had designed a new control system for its 240mm rocket launchers that would lead to a “qualitative change” in North Korea’s defense forces. This country also tested new bullets last month.
According to KCNA, this missile launcher will be transferred to the units of the North Korean People’s Army and will replace the old equipment from 2024 to 2026. Pyongyang announced that eight artillery shells “hit the intended targets to confirm the superiority and destructive power of the updated 240 mm multiple rocket launcher.” South Korea claims that it cannot confirm the test firings carried out by North Korea yesterday.
