Damn, that would be a fun job!
Just the other day the jet fighters took off from the nearby airfield and went cruising out to slow down/stop a plane approaching the Capitol Building.
SHOOK THE HOUSE!
So, AA batteries in Seoul ~ OK ~ sounds like a good idea.
That means we aren't the only guys on the front lines.
Your country is very smart to be wary and plan.
I truly hope the North doesn’t do anything crazy.
I think China (the real enemy) is not ready to take on the West — the cost may be too high.
NK will back down after they have finished with their machismo posturing.
If not, our next President will back you, assuming it isn’t the current one.
Politicians seem to be a nervous bunch. Don't understand why, if they aren't doing anything wrong.
/johnny
It makes perfect sense to me.
No, but I can’t say I’m surprised.
How tall is that building? It looks like it is 200 stores high or on a mountain. The buildings below look 3,000 feet lower.
“Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m an artilleryman.”
“HI, KIM!!!”
There are Patriot Missile Batteries around DC.
Seoul would be the main target of NK if a war breaks out, although I am not sure its air forces would be all that effective.
Wars only ends when one side decisively loses.
2d Inf Div - Tong Du Chon Vet here. My admiration for Koreans is very great given what they face. I am very concerned about the next few months there. I hope that someday the North Korean government collapses and you can rescue the people in the North though it won’t be asy.
After 11 Sep there should have been AA gun emplacements in New York City... and boy would there have been a different outcome to Obama’s unannounced low-altitude buzzing of NYC in Air Force 1!
I suspected, but didn’t envision gas-masked snipers. A North Korean attack on Seoul will be attempted by artillery - that’s all they have.
Here is why the SK buildings have AA forces on top of buildings.
My nephew has stood guard many very, very cold nights at the DMZ. There is no peace in Korea.
I have more confidence if a ROK unit were to my flank than some Euro army.
They still live under a real threat and don’t see their military as a costly joke or social laboratory (Which even we in the US have). Of all our allies, the ROK army is one of the better ones and their troops are well trained, highly disciplined (unlike even our guys that can’t even clean their own room anymore).
Because the threat and military hardware/presence, actually makes investment flee the country and hurts their image, they casually downplay just how bunkered up, stock piled, massive reserve forces, pre-marked targets, pre wired and set up bridges (demo)......they really are. South Korea is armed to its teeth! They are entirely defensive, but realistically if the North were to invade, they cannot realistically expect to win in terms of taking and holding ground. There is more crap cached, stuff that is undisclosed, bunkers and hardened buildings that are concealed or look like beautiful fountains disguised etc in that place per mile than probably even in Israel, and I’ve been to both.
The North blackmails the South with the threat of war but realistically the North isn’t capable of taking the South unless others come to the Norths aid. However, a war like the one the North threatens with (massive rocket and artillery fire where collateral damage is the intent!) would mean an end to the prosperity in the South and the cost of war or even it’s threat as of late is so immense that the South as others pay the blackmail or cave in. A good defense of the South is a pyrrhic scenario. The North with nothing to loose bets on the pragmatism, good will and level-headedness of the South to essentially extort their existence with threats of mutual destruction. But no, the North won’t penetrate into the South very far, I can’t see that happening.
Flew through Seoul once and was amazed that as we flew along how many guns were aimed at us despite the MARINES on the side of our aircraft.
Thanks, I can get my hands on 10 AAA’s, but the Ammo is light.