NATO said:
The missle shot over Hokkaido was a Hwasong-12, a 28 tonne ballistic missle that cruises at 2100+ km above ground, if it failed and landed on hokkaido it would be carrying approximately 5/8th of it's fuel payload, that means along with the missle itself hitting a populated area at high speed, it's propellant chambers would explode, of which is mainly udmh and rfna, that sort of payload, at that sort of speed would potentially take out an area between 12km2 along a linear path, it's flight path put it smack bang over the city of sapporo, which is an area of 1121km2, and a population of 5.47million, thus 12km2 would be roughly 1.1% of the greater sapporo area, or around 60,170 of the population overall, increasing exponentially the closer it got to the city center. Just because a missle isn't carrying a bomb, doesn't mean it isn't a dangerous thing. |
America is doing the same missle tests near North Korea