Originally Posted by
Beamr
NK supplying Russia with ammunition and missiles.
Russian own production is currently 250k rounds monthly, so NK is providing almost two years worth of Russian production. Even if the NK shells would be 50% rubbish, that would still leave Russian forces with a years worth of production extra.
It is of outmost importance for the west to ramp up production AND provide long range weapons to halt the russian logistics.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/...47843057995971
Kim Jr II'nd has been providing intel as to the parlous state of the NK "hordes" by providing presumably the best of the best of the best arty and rounds that NK can provide to it's fraternal mate, the dark lord of the Kremlin. What that has indicated is the ammunition fails to meet the exacting standards of the 2nd best army in Crimea, or even Belgorod. NK ammo is blowing out tubes by having excessive pressure, or inadequate pressure and sticking in the barrel. The exacting science of ballistics is turned to a parody of flinging the stuff at the fan in order to heft a payload of unknown effectiveness somewhere down range. It remains in keeping with the masterful strategy that has led Russia from being a go-to supplier of energy to Europe to a country that the ruble is currently slightly less than twice the value of a square of toilet tissue (not certain if that is single, double or triple ply... ).
It takes skill to convert a state oil company from a billion a day profit center to a loss making enterprise, and yet, that is what the dark lord has achieved. Perhaps Russia should have this guy as their king for then 4 terms to cement their future fully in the 7th Century, which seems to be where they are heading.
The overall impression of the achiements of Lord Lucas, (of darkness fame) is to add to NATO solidarity, to cause Armenia to withdraw from CSTO, to have the 'Stans declare the ruble non grata for any trade, and to remove around a trillion dollars directly in. Russian sovereign value, which setting up reparations of a larger amount from the wanton damage that has been bestowed as Russias gift of Mir on its neighbour. For Vlad, another day ending in the letter "Y".
Vlad's exit strategy is pretty simple, he has as much grass as he can eat in Pyongyang, and can always spend time in Teheran, its nice enough in Autumn and Spring, less so in Summer and Winter, but he can afford the aircon, after all, he singlehandedly took out Russia's future, that has to have let him squirrel away a bit for a rainy day.
The likelihood of Russia achieving foreign military sales on more than slightly used toilet paper is not enhanced by the showing of their S-300, S-400, T-90, SU-30, SU-34, SU-35... SU-57 nor their PDW capability of their naval products, which seem to have an affinity with ocean deeps. That a once feared nation has so effectively thrown away their commercial potential is quite remarkable, Vlad will certainly make the history books.
This conflict is reshaping the world in many ways, alliances that were on the precipice of being declared deceased have been replaced by the Moscow Stock exchange looking like a trajectory from the Tarpean rock, after a heavy feasting of borsch 'n swill. There are some sobering lessons to be learned from the sacrifice of a noble and courageous nation that have stood up to the bully that is the character of Russia, hopefully some adults are spending a lot of lamp oil doing the math and strategy reviews from the lessons to be learned from the actions of the dilettante would be tzar. Those lessons are hard earned, will we as a defence industry learn from them?