Some wasn't bought at all, probably most of it, like fuel, it was sold on the black market by officers, a few years ago there was Russian night vision equipment and other items on eBay. Most ended up as yachts and the owners are gonna end up dead or worse.
i wasn't advocating just giving it to them... i can't speak for the Ukrainians, but i assumed they wouldn't let them keep it. it would be a way to get them to withdraw from the rest of Ukraine. many men have had to swallow a bitter pill now to get what they wanted in the future. i personally would rather see the russian army routed, hunted, slaughtered, and putin so humiliated that he never tries this shit again, but that would take a lot more Ukrainian lives to accomplish...which is better?
The simplest thing would be to take a place on the coast of the sea of AZOV and destroy it with missiles, which is why Vlad needs to hold the coast along the sea of AZOV which is mostly Ukrainian territory.
Just saying what is possible these days and it would be handy if they figured the fatfuck was losing his marbles.
It's way behind the lines presently and would take a well planned commando/special forces type raid w/ heavy planning,possibly stealthily inserted frog men to latch underwater explosives set to go off when they leave,or a drone attack launched from small boats at night,don't think Ukranian airforce is close enough rangewise nor carries the standoff munitions to carry it out that way, could be possible th fly in extreme West and get to Black sea over Moldova and fly at wavetop altitudes to thwart radar if they have the range for a one way Kamikaze mission as Ukraine does not have aerial refueling capability,if anything Ukraine has shown an incredible amount of resourcefulness and creative thinking in thwarting the Russians so who knows.
I'm just saying what is technologically possible, for defense mostly and what military analysts might be thinking in places like South Korea. The probabilities can be computer modeled and probably will be by them, not me. Precision guided munitions would be the answer to massed artillery and stealth drone using starlink exist or soon will. However it is unlikely the SK government would use a first strike unless desperate, but when the desperate time comes, it's nice to have an ace up your sleeve.
The North Koreans have so much artillery aimed across the border and there is tens of millions within range. It is not like they have to have a sophisticated plan. Load, fire.
Doesn't it amaze and horrify you all at the same time,that India w/ all their slums and shanty's that their pop. lives in,and Pakistan ,who can't keep the electric on 24/7 in their country,and N.Korea which can't even feed its people all have nukes,it's a juxtaposition that boggles the mind,the epitome of the phrase "putting the cart before the horse",like being a 40 yr. old virgin who wants to add 4 inches to his pecker.
5,700, ain't that big a number of artillery pieces and rocket launchers. I'll bet the South Korean's know where everyone is and maps are updated several times a day, if Kim has the fuel to move them around. As soon as the order went out to muster the artillery troops, or order them to fire, or move to new positions and fire, SK would know of it and the map updated along with the defense system to deal with them before the first shot was fired with under 6,000, you could have multiple drones and rockets targeting each one, fire automatically.
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Pretty sure every army is taking notes srom this war. I really doubt you could time a drone invasion with no one noticing 10,000 of them coming over the border. NK does not have to invad, just lay the cities to waste.5,700, ain't that big a number of artillery pieces and rocket launchers. I'll bet the South Korean's know where everyone is and maps are updated several times a day, if Kim has the fuel to move them around. As soon as the order went out to muster the artillery troops, or order them to fire, or move to new positions and fire, SK would know of it and the map updated along with the defense system to deal with them before the first shot was fired with under 6,000, you could have multiple drones and rockets targeting each one, fire automatically.
As I said, this war has got a lot of people thinking about new possibilities.
North Korea’s Artillery Could Inflict 200,000 Casualties In Just One Hour
North Korea could use its immense artillery arsenal to send a bloody message to South Korea and the U.S.
“We assessed how North Korea might use their artillery as terror weapons,” RAND researcher Timothy Bonds tells me.
Should hostilities escalate on the Korean peninsula, the North has a problem. “The truth is that the North Korean military is not adequate for invading South Korea,” says Bonds. “They cannot maintain an offensive for very long and their forces would be very vulnerable in to air and ground attack.”
However, North Korea has another option: the 5,700 long- and medium-range howitzers and multiple rocket launchers along the 160-mile Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea. These weapons are heavily fortified, including tunnels that allow the guns to emerge to shoot a few quick rounds and then duck inside before enemy aircraft and artillery can destroy them.
Equally worrying is that many North Korean guns are within range of Seoul, the densely populated South Korean capital with almost 10 million residents in the city and 25 million with the greater metropolitan area. North Korea has famously threatened to use its artillery to turn Seoul into a “sea of fire” since the 1990s, should war erupt between with South Korea and its ally the United States.
presently...who knows where those lines will be in a week, two weeks
Nukes are insurance and allows assholes to act like assholes without fear of invasion. If you don't have them you tend not to be a target, they need to account for launch failures, interceptions and put multiple warheads on the same important targets. The Americans tend to be focused more on what can shoot nukes back, than wiping out cities, the priority is shoot those who are gonna shoot you and hit them not just with nukes either, a conventional warhead can take out mobile launchers even moving and every one of them is probably tracked too, including the decoys on a computerized map. In this scenario America could lose some major cities, but the Russian nuclear force would be wiped out along with a lot of their cities, in a partial nuclear war where one side succeeded, somewhat. Bad idea all around.
The calculus is being made I'm sure, it would be more useful for defense and is really a defensive idea and a possible solution to terrorism and blackmail. It shouldn't even cost that much and is easily with in the technical capabilities of a country like SK.
Switchblade drones can use facial recognition and fly into a face from 40km away, if gun barrels are all that are poking out they can fly into them with shaped charges. Also they ain't deep enough to defend against rocket precision artillery with the right warheads. Everyone of those tanks can be taken out while parked at night by switchblade 600's now, if in range. Imagine if they start now and with new battery technology and starkink control new custom ones can have a lot further reach, secretly deployed in a few years. I'm certain, nerds at least, are working on it. They would want any solution with a reasonable chance of working to stop or limit damage from such an attack.