KN-06
Sign in to saveThe Pongae-5 (; KN-06 under the United States naming convention) is a North Korean surface-to-air missile system. The system was first shown publicly at the 65th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea on 10 October 2010.
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The Pongae-5 (; KN-06 under the United States naming convention) is a North Korean surface-to-air missile system. The system was first shown publicly at the 65th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea on 10 October 2010.
==Description== The Pongae-5 is a long-range SAM that bears resemblance to the Russian S-300 and Chinese FT-2000. The interceptor is likely to be long and wide, while having a mass of . Imagery of missile launch tubes shows they are larger in diameter, but shorter than the S-300's missiles. The missiles are mounted on locally produced, stretched 6x6 KamAZ 55111 (Taebaeksan 96) launcher trucks, with each holding three missile tubes. Pongae-5 is reported to have a range of at least and has a high-explosive warhead, weighing . The system is equipped with phased array radar and track-via-missile guidance system.
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