On December 31, 2022, North Korea held a "donation" ceremony for 30 sets of new 600mm super-large multiple rocket launchers.

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[Compilation of Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report] The "Hippocampus" High Mobility Multiple Rocket System (HIMARS) rocket caliber is 227 mm, and North Korea showed a high profile for the first time on December 31 last year. A "super-large multiple rocket launcher" with a caliber of 600 mm, which claims to be capable of launching short-range ballistic missiles and tactical nuclear weapons!

North Korea also fired three ballistic missiles on the same day, capping a year of unprecedented missile tests by the isolated nation.

North Korea then launched another short-range ballistic missile off its east coast in the early hours of the 1st, a rare late-night New Year's Day weapons test.

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On the 1st, the North Korean official media "Korean Central News Agency" (KCNA) not only reported that the leader Kim Jong-un instructed to greatly increase the number of nuclear bombs held, but also publicized that the North Korean military industrial sector delivered 30 sets of the aforementioned super-large multiple rocket launchers for use by North Korean troops. .

KCNA also claimed that the aforementioned four short-range ballistic missiles were all launched by this variety of rocket systems.

KCNA reported that on December 31, in front of the headquarters building of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, workers in the military industry “gifted” this new 600mm large-scale multiple-launch rocket launcher to the Workers’ Party. Attend the presentation ceremony.

Judging from the photos, this new 600mm ultra-large multiple rocket launcher is a vehicle-mounted system with 6 bombs per vehicle, but its radar, satellite guidance, and command system capabilities are not clearly known; KCNA claims that the system can carry tactical nuclear weapons. The range covers the entire territory of South Korea; it can overcome different terrain types, has high mobility and multiple precise attack power, and will become the main weapon of the North Korean military to achieve the combat mission of "overwhelmingly defeating the enemy".

It is understood that this super-large multiple rocket launcher has been developed for many years, and it has been tested many times in 2019, but no detailed metadata has been disclosed; on November 28, 2019, South Korea observed North Korea test-fired two rocket launchers, flying about 380 kilometers , the flight altitude is about 97,000 meters, and the launch interval between the two is about 30 seconds; after that, there is no update of the information, until the last day of last year, it was reported that 30 sets were delivered and 3 test launches were reported.