10 million artillery shells! That is a staggering number that will unequivocally boost any Russian offensive operation.
That is a lot of shells holy shit
The true masters of puppets behind this proxy war: 🇰🇵v🇰🇷
That’s a rather silly take. The Koreas have technically been at war for the better part of a century, and in the unlikely scenario it was to turn hot again, artillery would be a major deciding factor.
They’re uniquely positioned for this role. No other country has had quite the same pressure to maintain their capacity to produce shells. Even for Russia, the idea anything outside of a direct confrontation with NATO could meaningfully deplete their Soviet stocks or outpace the portion of their old production capacity that they maintained seemed absurd.
It is amazing when you stop to think about it. Over 70 years ago North Korea and South Korea, respectively, were propped and raised up by the Soviet Union and the U.S., loaded with weaponry and coordinated assistance so the two superpowers could fight a proxy war against one another in East Asia without the risk of destroying the wider world. As a result they ended up heavily militarized to this day.
Now, generations later, the U.S. and the Soviets’ successor state are going to *them,* falling back on old connections and securing their assistance for help fighting an entirely different proxy war between themselves on a completely different continent.
So who has better quality ammo,n.korea or pakistan?
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10 million artillery shells! That is a staggering number that will unequivocally boost any Russian offensive operation.
That is a lot of shells holy shit
The true masters of puppets behind this proxy war: 🇰🇵v🇰🇷
That’s a rather silly take. The Koreas have technically been at war for the better part of a century, and in the unlikely scenario it was to turn hot again, artillery would be a major deciding factor.
They’re uniquely positioned for this role. No other country has had quite the same pressure to maintain their capacity to produce shells. Even for Russia, the idea anything outside of a direct confrontation with NATO could meaningfully deplete their Soviet stocks or outpace the portion of their old production capacity that they maintained seemed absurd.
It is amazing when you stop to think about it. Over 70 years ago North Korea and South Korea, respectively, were propped and raised up by the Soviet Union and the U.S., loaded with weaponry and coordinated assistance so the two superpowers could fight a proxy war against one another in East Asia without the risk of destroying the wider world. As a result they ended up heavily militarized to this day.
Now, generations later, the U.S. and the Soviets’ successor state are going to *them,* falling back on old connections and securing their assistance for help fighting an entirely different proxy war between themselves on a completely different continent.
So who has better quality ammo,n.korea or pakistan?