Sinpo SSK Sub Brief 

Nothing incredible. 1,000 things could go wrong when you have two eras in one boat.

@@Floridantea thats y its incredible

@@Floridantea RE: "Nothing incredible. 1,000 things could go wrong when you have two eras in one boat." To adapt a modern ballistic missile system to a WWII era system is a non-trivial feat of engineering. Even more incredible to make it work like North Koreans have done it, on an extremely limited budget.

@@mrteacher1315 You don’t know what their “limited budget” so stop presuming. Their dictator decides the funds that get allocated to what project from their hidden bank accounts worldwide funded by illegal arms sales, drugs and illicit activities. There is nothing astounding mixing two eras. It’s dangerous and you don’t that old boat near your country as anything could go wrong and blow/sink. So stop calling it an engineering marvel, it ain’t. It’s outright dangerous, easily tracked and ill funded by a despot.

Sowiets did the same in the 50s. They turned a type XXI copy into a SSBK

It's so similar, since the North Koreans bought atleast 2 Golf II (Project 629A) in 1993 or 1994, as scrap hulks. Its theorised that they were never scrapped, instead being used as training aids for engineers

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The golf class was a development of the foxtrot class, which explains the engineering differences.

Wow, that is interesting! :o

Source for further details?

Reasons I guess

@@billdewahl7007 So many new subscribers and not all go back and see the old videos. So probably a good idea on his part.

@@cconnors Would be nice to have a note about it in the description tho, with so many of these out it is hard to know at a glance if it is new or not.

@@KS-xo3oh He's started streaming again but puts it all on another channel now.

He’s cleaning out some storage or he’s needing income?

Yeah well... after seeing Russia fail in Ukraine im confident in my underestimation of NK :)

They are far, far more motivated than Russian troops by any measure. Given that, despite their technological problems, they are quite dangerous. The DPRK is a nation of "true believers".

Yeah but the same could be said about China, the media and so called defense commentators for years underestimated and dropped the ball on that big time, don't you think?

@@juliusraben3526 You are only seeing the news from the western perspective. Even if Russia was absolutely dominating and making it's way across Europe you would only hear the western media say how incompetent Russian military is and how great the EU union and NATO is.

@@ThomasRonnberg so... that means that the russians are allmost back at the outskirts of Berlin ?

It's not all that surprising, tbh. Most early SLBM's the Russians had were liquid fueled - a fact that contributed to not a few accidents and at least one loss. Consequently, the larger size required by having two fuel tanks forced a move into a space with more vertical room. Even with improvements over the years, Russian boomers have had very large "forests" in their hulls. That Delta-IV hull must generate a ton of flow noise as it goes over the missile compartment aft of the sail.

Not sure what worring is, but I wouldn't concern myself with North Korea if I were you.

I know, its like here take this money for your nuclear program so long as you only threaten your neighbors and dont supply our neighbors. Talk about short sighted Nimbyism.

@@watcherzero5256 That’ll be the chosenites for ya. They want things in Your backyard, not Theirs.

@@agenericaccount3935 your backyard isn't as nice as our backyard but..😉

Seems like you're HAPPY that Israel is threatened by these scuds.

Wok this way.

Fear and loathing in Sinpo is my favourite Tarantino movie

Why? They'd be removing their own "boogyman".

Tracking yes. Eliminating? Why? I agree with John in part. Having a "threat" is great for budget. Letting the threat stay ignorant of their shortcomings while you shadow them in your Type 214s is even better.

Russia promised to defend Ukraine and never fight it as long as Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons. This all transpired at the collapse of the Soviet Union. I write this December 13, 2021 and Russia has amassed 110,000+ troops along with every possible military bit of hardware they will need to invade Ukraine, or, as Russian media states, to do one of the biggest war games in that area in a long time. When you consider Russia sent Spetnaz (equivalent of Delta Force, Seals) advisors to Ukraine with all the man-deployable weapons they needed and a game plan how to overthrow the Ukraine government over the past several years, I believe the end result is a foregone conclusion, and all because Ukraine GAVE UP it's weapons. Literally. By seeking peace. That's what sucks about peace- it will NEVER work unless EVERYONE wants it, but everyone wants more....more money for better shelter and more stuff in it, more food for longer guaranteed survival (relatively speaking), lots of extra money to barter and buy any and everything needed to ensure survival (literally speaking in this instance), because the more likely you are to survive, the better choice of mate you will get. And the more comfortable your survival, the "higher grade" MILF, I mean partner, you will get. That's how we've survived for 50,000+ years!!!!!!!!!!! ( I think they might be further back than that in anthropology in regards to us, Homo Sapiens) You will NEVER modify the base, primal instincts in 99% of manking- to reproduce and reproduce with the best mate you can find, and to do that, you need resources, money, and security. Anyone SEEKING TO START A NUCLEAR PROGRAM AFTER 1998 OR SO, I WOULD HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU 100%, ARE NOT THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO YOU WANT HAVING THEM. They KNOW they're horrible people and the piper will knock and they want to irradiate the bastard if he ever tries to collect his dues. Anyone wanting to KEEP AN ALREADY ESTABLISHED, NON-EXPANDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM AFTER CIRCA 2000 IS COMPLETELY NORMAL FOR WANTING TO KEEP IT. And they SHOULD keep it because giving up nukes only makes YOU weak and the world MORE unbalanced. Stupid hippies protesting wanting ''Nukes off of this planet!" don't realize they're protesting in the wrong country. They should protest overseas to our adversarys. Because unless they give them up, the moment we do, we will be run over and our land replaced with conquerers....if we're not a radiated heap of memories. And with people like North Korea who, if we're being honest, is lying if their mouth is moving, will undoubtedly keep some spares stored behind a shed somewhere. A nuclear free world is a fucking fallacy that people need to get over because anyone with that mindset never lived long enough to pass on their genes, hence, the reason it HAS NEVER and WILL NEVER happen. (with all due respect Mr. Wazza, sir. Great insight man!)

Lack of capacity to do it.

Two are known. I don't recall which hulls specifically but there were 2 Golf II/Pr. 629As that went to the DPRK in 1993 or 94 for scrapping

I said aloud "No they didn't, YOU did!" :-)

Lots of Soviet block navies unofficial adopted the NATO nomenclature when speaking casually amongst each other (it was easier to say than "the Project 645 class").

@@plab0187 in the cases when they didn't have their own names. Like the Kilo, or Project 877, which was called the Paltus-class (тип - «Палтус»), or the Typhoon (941, Akula, not to be confused with 971, which NATO calls Akula)

Didn't the Chinese call the submarines they built Mings?

Care to expand on that point?

@@NorthForkFisherman Iraq got invaded on a false pretext of WMD weapon because Iraq started trading oil in euros and started realizing substantial profit over trading oil in US dollar. If Iraq really had nuclear weapon and ballistic missile capability like North Korea does today, they would not have being invaded, even if they were trading their own in euros.

@@mrteacher1315 Well, Iraq did have WMDs, just transferred to Assad by the time of the invasion. If you doubt that they had them, I do refer you to the Iranians who suffered greatly because of their effects. Further, the only reason they didn't have at least crude nuclear weapons is because of the Israeli attack. But this is really a neither here nor there issue. North Korea doesn't want to attack the South and vice versa, except on paper. The cultures are too divergent and really all the DPRK cares about is regime survival.

@@NorthForkFisherman 2nd invasion of Iraq was over new WMDs, not old ones. And US/NATO was helping Iraq with chemical weapons and intelligences during Iraq-Iran war. You might want to search for talks by Scott Ritter who was in Iraq numerous times in official UN capacity at the time. Scott Ritter stated numerous times that Iraq was compliant with US/UN/Western requirement for WMD but US/Israel/NATO wanted Iraq to appear not compliant so that Iraq could basically be wiped out. FWIW, Scott Ritter was the UN inspector.

@@mrteacher1315 Yes, and I don't dispute that, but that's really an apples and oranges issue here as I said. The DPRK's only real concern is regime survival.

GO NAVY! -US Marine here lol

@@PopeMetallicus Semper Fi - Canadian Army retired. Cheers

@@wtfbuddy1 🤘

Go "Hand Egg"... RAF...

Because the Romeo is TINY, and there wasn't much spare room for large batteries to start with

@@PopeMetallicus remove aft torpedo room that will make some free space. also original is acid lead ones there are more powerful batteries around so its possible to get equal time. depends on how extensive were upgrades well... and if they want those upgrades anyway

@@jebise1126 That's certainly possible, but im fairly sure lead acid is the only type of battery North Korea can even make in large quantities. But as far as I know, the aft torpedo room isn't really used anymore, so that'd be a good idea

@@PopeMetallicus You say tiny but it's actually a good deal bigger than a lot of the diesel boats that a lot of navies are using nowadays. It's of greater length and beam than the likes of the Type 212, 209, 214 and the Scorpene that a LOT of navies still are building nowadays. Now the difference here is the construction, because the Romeo is a double hull boat, while the length is still rather great, the internal width of the pressure hull is much less than the beam would lead one to believe.

@@ach3909 Yeah, modern diesel boats are tiny. They're like a third the size of real subs like the 688 or 774

That's because the German boats had more powerful electric motors than the diesels, which was about 5000hp for the motors and 4000hp for the engines. It's the same case for other early "fast underwater, slow on the surface" submarines, like the British R class of WWI, 1200hp on the motor and only a pitiful 480hp on the diesel, Late war Japanese I-200 class, 5000hp on the motor and about 2700hp on the diesel, their Ha 200 class had 1200hp on the motor and 400hp on the diesel. Now compare to the Project 633 (the Romeo class) which had 1700hp on the motors and 4000hp on the diesel. Now this can very well mean that they can charge their batteries much faster in comparison to those earlier boats (Imagine charging the batteries of a 1200hp electric motor with just a 400hp diesel generator, while that generator is also busy turning the screw to move you around on the surface).

I'd laugh my ass off at NK trying to launch one of those, only to have a sub-launched version of a THAAD or a modern version of a SPRINT ABM come tearing out of the water after it. Sidenote, the SPRINT is the most hilariously overkill interceptor system I've ever seen, with a mind-boggling 100 (!) G's of acceleration and a top speed of about Mach 4-5 in the lower atmosphere. The damn thing needed ablative plating to keep it from disintegrating from the insane amounts of heat that kind of performance generates.

There are probably multiple ROK Type 214s already training for a pre-emptive strike on this SSB with US oversight. If they ever launch you have to assume that it's going to make it to target. An unacceptable outcome in any scenario. If I were the ROK Navy, I'd be looking at a Hyundai (or equivalent) built version of the Skhval torpedo. Kill the boat before it gets to launch depth.

Modern air and surface ASW assets probably won't have trouble tracking it either--there are probably contingencies for quickly assembling a task force to hunt it down in the event of a crisis. A heavyweight ballistic missile in the very early boost phase shouldn't in theory be much harder of a target for surface-launch SAMs than a conventional aircraft that can accelerate in a vertical climb (i.e. F-15 if I remember correctly)... Right?

@@fluffly3606 Makes sense to me.

So the anarchocommunists' dream country...that should tell you who we're dealing with

He knows his role, there's not going to be any coup.

Why the heck are you even talking to, Mr Schizo?

All part of the "intelligence community's" grand plan... Now hush up and send your sons to Ukraine.

Maybe a very long extension cord? 😉😋

@@Arsenic71 if they can send power from an offshore wind farm to shore I am sure you could do it the other way around. Be fairly simple and said boat would make zero noise and literally be submerged for weeks if not months with no problems.

If you had any actual skills in that department you would know wouldn't you?

@@alexwinfield9540 Not a fanboy. Graduated in aerospace, worked on F14, A6. Developed sims.

What progress?! Kim just played Trump and did what he wanted.

Yeah, keir is right. Kim just got what he wanted out of Trump with no intention of making any real concessions and Trump got played like a sucker.

What did kim do? He stopped testing nukes He stopped all activities at the reactors He stopped testing missiles He destroyed the ICBM test stand. Trump gave him nothing except an in person meeting. These activities all resumed when Biden took office. So what additional facts do you have to support your opinion he did what he wanted and walked all over trump? Because all I see in your comments is blind baseless partisan hatred.

@@rydplrs71 In the video you have a missile tested in 2019 - during Trump era - after meeting. But you say that they only resumed tests after Biden took office. That's just one example of something wrong with your analysis. Also if you recall - NK had a nuclear accident couple of years ago. That takes time to rebuild. But you jump to conclusions that everyone is just playing partisan games. Yet you assume that Trump is the only person to ever stop North Korea - he must be so fearsome, given that previous US administrations, Chinese Administrations, Israel and other countries were not able to do this. It's sad that people believe so much in their idols that they stop seeing reality.

@@jannegrey593 those are short range tests that can’t even cover all of South Korea. I should have been more clear, they stopped testing ICBM’s.

Surely with your genius political knowledge you must be high in some government? No? You're just a moron on the Internet who aren't nearly as intelligent as they think they are? Who would of thought!

kimchi, obviously, those boats have a dedicated kimchi compartment

DPRK actually has better nutrition than many asian countries, including India. Famine was almost 30 years ago.

@@Rssika 30 years ago? are you in the 2040's? How's bitcoin doing?

@@VoltageLP I can't help you if you cant put together simple additions.

@@Rssika no worries, I manage quite well with that stuff 😂😂

DOES TYPING IN ALL CAPS MAKE YOU LESS OF A DUMBASS?

stir fry?

Nothing. The relationship was pretty much parasitic, which is why Khruschev put sn end to it