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"This is the kind of crap the Koreans send. Only 1 shell out of 5 fires" - Russian soldiers show how they wash grease and rust off 82 mm mortar shells. (imgur.com)

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[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago

It really says something about the state of the Russian military that they have to buy up the trash that's too crappy for North Korea's army.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 66 points 1 week ago

North Korea’s army which, whilst having a stranglehold on available resources in its threadbare economy, hasn’t seen combat since the 1950s. Its actual combat readiness may fall short of its rhetoric.

[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

may

They can't even stop their own guys sprinting off across the DMZ.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

They have actually made that near impossible since 2020. The amount of successful escapes per year is now less than 10% of before

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

I'm very curious what the numbers are, care to drop any sources?

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

https://youtu.be/jlX7tl1QvJs

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

South Korea is going to have a wealth of embarrassing NK military footage from this to use in their cross border propaganda deliveries. That could damage morale inside North Korea in a way that’s never been seen before.

Fingers crossed this dumb decision hurts their regime hard.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

To my knowledge, people close to the borders where propaganda can effectively reach are already quite aware that their government is a joke. They're just stuck there.