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Re:New Sanctions Imposed on North Korea as it Warns of Pre-e... by pilom on Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:12AM (#5337616)
Iron dome shoots down rockets with other rockets. The US has some tech in forward operating bases in Afghanistan to shoot down rockets and mortars with 300 round/minute 50 caliber Gatling guns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-RAM). Both of these technologies only work against explosive/fueled rounds because you can blow them up.

The artilery that North Korea has pointed at the south could be just slug launchers i.e. imagine a giant sized bullet. Because a slug has not fuel or explosives to detonate you can't really stop it by hitting the round with something else.

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Re:New Sanctions Imposed on North Korea as it Warns of Pre-e... by bd_at_rivenhill on Thursday March 07, 2013 @11:11AM (#5338374)
Artillery doesn't fire slugs unless you count tank rounds that are designed to kill other tanks (e.g. discarding sabot depleted uranium rounds). Most artillery rounds are fused for air burst to spread shrapnel around efficiently.
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