Paper · 1999
3rd World Missile Development – A New Assessment Based on UNSCOM Field Experience and Data Evaluation
This paper by Robert H. Schmucker was presented at an international conference in 1999. You can open it here as a PDF file.
- Author
- Robert H. Schmucker
- Conference
- 12th Multinational Conference on Theater Missile Defense – Responding to an Escalating Threat
- Date and place
- 1–4 June 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland
- File
- PDF, 12 pages, English, about 82 KB
- Rights
- © Schmucker Technologie 1999
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Abstract
In 1998, missile development in the 3rd world showed an alarming progress, when Pakistan, Iran and North Korea fired rockets of significant ranges. Of these only North Korea is considered as a major player with experience from reverse engineering and development. Hands-on experience in UNSCOM’s R&D missions in Iraq, the analysis of rocket development history and experience from long time industrial work reveal the basic aspects of these countries’ activities and capabilities. The data extracted from the open information allow detailed descriptions of the different systems. This results in a new assessment of the missile status in these countries, which points to the necessity of further enforcement of proliferation limitation.