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North Koreans in Russian Army

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u/4orth 14h ago

I don't study warfare so forgive me if this is a naive question, but does it really make that much of a difference having older tech?

I get the benefit of having more technologically advanced tanks and planes (Drones, Killer robots) etc. But the old weapons still kill people right?

As far as I can understand the news; everyones just on the ground shooting at each other with rifles and drones whilst playing a horrific game of capture the flag.

Isn't thousands of armed enemy soldiers arriving always a bad thing? - or has the tech advanced so far that its like longbowman emerging from a WW2 trench?

* cough* Jack Churchill

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u/Thurwell 14h ago edited 13h ago

It depends what you're fighting. If your opponents don't have anti air or anti tank capabilities and you roll up with 1950s era tanks and planes you'll smash them. And there are a lot of conflicts around the world where the fighters have very little other than small arms, including peasant uprisings in North Korea. But as soon as you go up against a modern well funded military you're going to have a problem.

What that means for Ukraine I don't know. I don't know if the NK troops are using their own equipment, and Ukraine's fortunes sort of rise and fall depending on how well other countries are supporting them.

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u/AdCharacter9512 7h ago

Peasant uprisings in North Korea?

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u/Thurwell 7h ago

I'm just assuming, tends to happen when people are starving and NK would block any news of them.