Posted on 01/13/2025 2:24:32 PM PST by Apparatchik
When North Korea’s 12,000-strong 11th Army Corps deployed to Kursk Oblast in western Russia to help Russian troops battle an invasion by a powerful Ukrainian force, they brought along anti-tank vehicles, howitzers and rocket launchers.
They also brought along a rarely seen air-defense vehicle combining a large wheeled chassis with the radar and missile launchers from a Russian-designed Tor surface-to-air missile vehicle, which normally rides on tracks.
The customized North Korean Tor is so unusual that the Russians themselves apparently didn’t recognize it as belonging to their side. On or just before Friday, Russian drones spotted and struck the North Korean vehicle, destroying it.
Celebrating what they clearly believed was a devastating strike on Ukrainian air defenses along the 250-square-mile Ukrainian-held salient in Kursk, Russian forces circulated a video montage of their attack on the North Korean vehicle.
It took a few days for outside observers to figure out exactly what the Russians blew up in Kursk last week. “It seems that what was originally claimed to be a ‘Western-made radar system,’ is very likely to be a North Korean Tor SAM version on a cab chassis,” Polish analyst WarVehicleTracker noted.
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How not to treat allies’ borrowed stuff (and people).
While I am in full agreement with you re: Ukraine propaganda, did the Russians not blow up the Norks? Seems pretty easy to verify either way.
Again, the hypocrisy is outrageous, it's laughable.
Lol, I’m sure whoever the Russian was that pulled the trigger on this thing was like “ oh man, I’m gonna get promoted for blowing this thing up, it looks REAL important”.
Why would anyone be outraged over the Russkies blowing up a Nork AD platform?
It’s not hypocrisy. They are there to kill Russians. What’s to be angry about. Seems the Russians do a pretty good job killing themselves.
Must be true then.
Rooski Army motto -— “Send in the clowns”
Including Luxembourg and The Grand Duchy of Fenwick?
I gotta call LOL on that one.
Except this is Russia, where finding new ways to make defeat and victory as costly as possible, then finding ways to make it worse is the Russian way of war.
The Russian military is useless. Without the nukes, the Russians couldn’t threaten anyone.
Poor Russia never gets any breaks. It brings a tear to my eye.
For the REAL truth, see the Russian government.
Pyongyang in three days!
I thought all the norks killed themselves... ??
Why would North Koreans be in Russia to kill Russians?
Given that the Russians are gaining increasingly amounts of territory in Ukraine daily, you can save your tears.
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