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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
The US Paladin system use GPS targeting and can send a round down an enemy artillery barrel in seconds. The South Korean's use older modle US 155's but they are pretty acurate as well.
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Yeah. I'm not well informed on most of the particular systems' capabilities. I could be
completely wrong.
Is there any information on the event that would invalidate my theory? Until any solid information is provided, I'm stuck with speculation... and I'm a bit intrigued.
I did a light search on the (M114) 155mm howitzer. It seems the maximum range for the model the ROK may be using is approximately 14,600 meters (16,000 yd). The Yeonpyeong island is 11 km from the DPRK mainland. That leaves the artillery emplacements to be within 3000 meters from the coast in order to be effectively engaged by the south; accuracy beyond that begins to be significantly hindered -- without (or possibly even with) compensation. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
What's left is to know where and how far the emplacements were.