MANILA, ($1=52.53 Philippine Pesos) — The Philippines will obtain a donation of twenty-two Ok-136 Kooryong rocket artillery programs from South Korea. The Philippine News Company says the supply will happen in July this 12 months, and the rocket artillery programs will likely be included within the stock of the Philippine Army and the Philippine Marines.
As 22 Ok-136 artillery items are a donation, their worth won’t be paid by the Authorities of the Philippines. Nonetheless, Manila can pay the price of transport from South Korea to the Philippines. This donation has been recognized for not less than three years [2019], however solely in latest days, the supply date has been clarified.
Ok-136 Kooryong is a South Korean product and is used solely within the military of the Asian nation. Based on publicly obtainable data from this mannequin rocket programs have produced a complete of 150 models. Based on the Philippine plan, Ok-136 Kooryong grew to become a part of a newly fashioned artillery battalion of the Philippine Armed Forces.
About Ok-136 Kooryong
Ok-136 Kooryong South Korean rocket artillery system was designed within the early 80s of the final century and started mass manufacturing in 1986. The system was commissioned by the South Korean military. Its design and manufacturing contain the Institute for Protection Analysis and Daewoo.
Ok-136 Kooryong is a weapon system with 130 mm 36 launched tubes mounted on a 6×6 South Korean chassis KM809A1. The overall mass of the rocket system is almost 5 tons. Your complete weapon system is mounted within the rear of the chassis.
Ok-136 fires a number of varieties of expenses: 130 mm unguided rockets, normal rockets K30, or their improved mannequin K33. Relying on the kind of artillery shells used, the vary of the rocket system is completely different: from 23 to 36 km.
Rocket’s warhead could be: typical HE [High Explosive] warhead or pre-fragmented HE warhead. Pre-fragmented HE [frag-HE]warhead accommodates 16,000 steel balls. Frag-HE implies that the rocket hull is scattered by the detonation of the explosive journal.
The Ok-136 Kooryong is powered by a diesel engine that gives the complete missile system with 236 horsepower. With the filling of a full tank of gas, Ok-136 Kooryong travels most as much as 550 km and a high velocity of not more than 80 km / h.
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