The KSOBB has been looking forward to expanding our military power. What better way to do that than to make missiles? Yet again, the annexation of the Marshall Islands proves to be a useful resource; the U.S. had installed various sites at islands that can help us do exactly what we want. The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein will be our primary missile test range, with range instrumentation, missile launch facilities, mission control center, range safety, meteorological support, and support space operations, alongside tracking radars (like the Ground-Based Radar Prototype), stationary and mobile telemetry, optical recording equipment and a secure fiberoptic data network via the HANTRU-1 undersea cable, which we can link to our Bottomese submarine Pacific fiber cables (info taken from Wikipedia). You might remember it is one Bikikosmos' launch base for satellites or rockets, so we will move Bikikosmos equipment to a safer and proper location, Omelek Island, which had been used for research and even as a SpaceX facility to launch Falcon 1. We can take some equipment from said facility to boost our space missions. Sandy's team is sent on a mission to upgrade the equipment in Meck Island, which forms part of the Kwajalein Missile Test Site and can be used for ABM interception. We will also incorporate the islands of Gagan and Gellinam, which were used for ballistic missile tests before. Thanks also to our Marshallese seabed mining operations, Krusty Workforce (including Production Kraborgs), large GDP with funding capability, and Sandy Cheeks' knowledge on CubeSat-level satellites, we have enough to produce one of the sea's best military engineering wonder. Mr. Krabs has introduced the Penny Pincher I, a short-range ballistic missile using APCP bound with HTPB propellant, an airframe made of our mined polymetallic nodules, carbon fiber and aluminium alloys, a titanium alloy warhead casing, unitary high explosives, silicon electronics, Bikikosmos satellite GPS and a NAV30U Inertial Navigation System. It also includes a radar altimeter, triggering the explosion of the warhead 10 meters above the ground (this might look a bit familiar to some reading). While Mr. Krabs chose unitary high explosives over submunition warheads simply for cheapness, all elements balance affordability and effectiveness. We can use Bikikosmos and Atoll centers to further maneuver Penny Pinchers, although signal senders and receivers are a bit costly due to high-range necessities, and most navigation is already covered by pre-launch calculations and the NAV30U system. However, they are more than affordable for KSOBB's economic conditions. Currently, the Penny Pinchers can only be launched from land, but Mr. Krabs is also working on a special, fortified Skyboat model specifically for launching them from anywhere in the sea (as well as ground mobile launchers). A test launch is planned in 2038 towards a large body of international waters East to the Marshall Islands, South to Midway Atoll, North to Howland Baker. Somewhat Southwest to Hawaii. Its range is currently 900 km and has a blast radius of roughly 1 km. We are actively working to upgrade the Penny Pincher and make it reach 2,500 km as an MRBM, but it will be a bit of a long time before we achieve that.
