Satellite images showing South Korea's counter attack to North Korea's shelling

[Lankan Ranger]

Satellite images showing South Korea's counter attack to North Korea's shelling

Yellow arrows point to craters made by 155mm shells from ROKMC's K9 SPH. Some craters are however not marked by yellow arrow even though it's obvious.

The long yellow line in the middle of image is where NK's 122mm rocket launchers were located at to fire the rockets. I can make out 6 positions. Remember that NK used 76mm, 122mm rockets, and 152mm against the SK island.

The ground behind the road is divided into rice paddies, hence the puzzle like lines crisscrossing it.

Some background on the action by the ROKMC on the shelled South Korean island.

There were 6 K9 SPH (ROKMC's) on the island and 4 had just completed firing exercise, firing into the ocean to the west away from NK, when NK suddenly shelled the SK island. 2 K9 were on guard against NK. Of the 6 only 3 K9 were able to return fire. The other 3 were unable to do so due to a jam (?) suffered during earlier training, collateral damage from initial shelling by NK etc.

Also it was reported that ROKMC on the island normally keeps only 1 live shell in each K9 for safety reasons. So when the ROKMC had to execute the counter-battery fire, the ROKMC marines had to 'carry' all of the shells (ROKMC expended 80 shells) from ammo storage bunker to the 3 K9.

Since the shelling SK govt has doubled # of K9 on the island and moved in K10 (automated ammo carrier/supplier) to support K9. SK is also seeking to purchase M982 Excalibur shells and Israel's Spike NLOS missiles.

 

[Lankan Ranger]

Satellite images taken by Israel's EROS-B Satellite

 

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Satellite images show S.Korean shelling ineffective

Claims by Seoul's military that its counter-fire hit North Korea hard after the North shelled a South Korean border island were called into question by satellite images published Thursday.
Military officials, trying to deflect charges they responded feebly to the deadly November 23 attack on Yeonpyeong island, have said their return fire was believed to have caused considerable damage.

But senior ruling party legislator Kim Moo-Sung said Thursday that the North's artillery positions apparently escaped unscathed.

The North fired up to 170 shells of which 80 hit the island, killing two civilians and two marines and wounding 18 other people.

It was the first time that a civilian area in the South had been shelled since the 1950-1953 war. The attack also damaged military facilities, destroyed 29 homes and set hillsides and fields ablaze.

South Korea in response fired 80 rounds from its much-touted indigenous K-9 self-propelled guns.

But Kim, citing satellite images published by global intelligence company Stratfor, told a ruling party meeting that 35 of them landed in the sea while 45 others reached North Korean land.

Of those which hit the mainland, only 14 got relatively close to the North's artillery positions.

"(When South Koreans fired back) North Korean artillery guns had already slid back into tunnels and even a single shell did not reach the target," Kim was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.

"The 14 shots appeared to have landed here and there on rice paddies."

Kim called on National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-Hoon to carry out a thorough investigation. "I hope this case will serve as an opportunity to reform the military," he said.

The defence minister is resigning to take responsibility for the widely criticised response.

The South is sending multiple rocket launchers and more guns, along with extra troops, to Yeonpyeong island and to four other frontline islands near the disputed sea border.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Both kim chee eating countries time wasting ..all comotion no action just caused the oil prices to hike up

 

[gpit]

Now this is really funny!

If you guys remember, this is what a SK clown claims:

SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Yonhap) -- Satellite images showed that counterfire by South Korea's military in response to North Korea's Nov. 23 artillery attack hit hard one of the North's barracks near the tense Yellow Sea border, indicating "severe human casualties," a lawmaker said Thursday.

(LEAD) Satellite photos show S. Korea's counterfire hit N. Korean barracks

US has spent huge amount of money for the ideological crusade, and is still spending... and this is the freeking result: 80 shells, 35 dropped into the ocean, 31 went nowhere, and another 14 landed in paddle field.

And worse yet, the democratic idiot call it "severe human casualties". Severe my foot!

I mean... hey, wake-up, look at your military fools!

 

[Akatsuki]

ok guyz where are my

 

[CardSharp]

The initial barrage was reportedly a coordinated time-on-target strike, which would mean that the rounds were fired in such a way as to attempt to achieve simultaneous impact. This tactic, achieved by lofting earlier rounds on less-efficient trajectories, does not necessarily require particularly modern equipment, but it does require well-drilled gun crews, decently maintained equipment and competent fire direction control personnel to calculate the fire mission. It is not clear what the North Koreans were attempting to achieve or how many guns were involved, but time-on-target is a useful tactic to attempt to lessen the time South Korea has to react to the strike — though an alert counterbattery radar would spot the first rounds — and the North had experimented with it in a January live-fire drill from coastal positions near the Northern Limit Line

 

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