Everybody is well trained and tough until the 155mm artillery shells start dropping. The Ukrainians have an uncanny gift of accuracy with the M777. Scary good.
@@TrevorCrook-c1sthat's what I recall. The 777 s were wiped out pretty quickly after delivery. But this armchair pandit still has fond memories of them
@@venkats0iitk, they were wiped out together with 2000 NATO generals and 5 aircraft carriers no doubt. As a matter of fact, I recently spoke to a guy serving with a 777 unit. They destroy russian assets every day. So go collect your potatoes for todays work now.
Good job for Ukranians with all this bluster. All after Ukranian Bandera recruiters going to nightclubs and grabbing guys from the streets for the front and giving them a few weeks of basic training. They are magically soldiers. Great propaganda for Ukraine. Wishful thinking had never won wars by themselves.
The Russian army are the 5th best army in Russia (1 Ukraine’s Army 2 Ukraine’s Farmers 3 an Oligarch’s army {ie Gazprom} 4 The North Korean army 5 The Russian army)
I think you vastly overestimate the Nork soldiers, their primary training has always been focused on being pretty parade marchers. They know NOTHING about the world outside their little kingdom and have no idea of what a real battleground is like.
Forming a column with a few MBTs, some IFVs driving down a small road untill the first vehicle hits a mine isn't what I would call 'combined arms warfare'.
There is no combined arms mobile warfare until you have air superiority or at the least dominance and Russia has never achieved this and neither will N. Korea who doesn’t even have an Air Force capable of achieving it. N. Korean troops will be used as cannon fodder, it’s all they are really capable of given the circumstances.
What are you talking about? The Russians have had air superiority. That is what the Ukrainians have complained about for a long time, and they have the best air defense in the world that the Western corrupt expensive military complex can not match.
@@dnotleythere ....You're clueless. They just drop glide bombs from 40 miles from the front. Every time they fly over Ukrainian troops they have a high percentage of being shot down.
Russia has always used the "overwhelm with numbers" strategy since WW2. They lost in Afghanistan. They lost to Japan. They almost lost to Finland. They have only been a strong force during WW2 when working in conjunction with other countries like the allies, or Germany when taking Poland. Even then they suffered massive losses. It's very similar to France prior to WW2 where they were complacent and proud for many years without ever updating their military.
I hear you, but lost to Japan? They invaded China at the end of WWII and the Japanese were defeated there in 10 days.. took south Sakhalin Island in a few days..
The thing that's not talked about enough, is that the best troops & equipment that Russia had are long gone. Now they're using national guard type troops & tanks/armored vehicles from 60-70yrs ago
Yes, a war of attrition really teaches an enemy how to fight you. All the wonder weapons are either captured or bought out in Ukrainian corruption for the Russians to reverse engineer or they are quickly destroyed. Like every Neocon proxy war from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
As BigMac said, they need all that mortars and guns to be their own manned, to communicate fast and effective. Otherwise they are just trained troops without support.
Bobby Fox! You said exactly what I said. Everyone thinks the NK forces are useless, but I said that they are well trained, disciplined and competent with their equipment and systems and that's almost more important than combat experience. You nailed it. Nobody else is talking about that. I'm from the old South African defense forces who fought against Cubans and Russians in Angola and we took very senior Russian and Cuban prisoners in battles. Their weakness has always been coordination and competence with their systems and equipment.
Better trained is good, but it only gets you so far in real battle conditions thousands of miles away from home wondering what you are doing there. And the other big problem as others have said is communication between NK and Russian troops, or lack of in this case.
@@neolithictransitrevolution427Unfortunately trash? You wish the Russian military isn't trash? I will assume many N. Korean troops will defect after being slaughtered and starved
But speaking about "combined arms" it's doubtful the Koreans have arrived with all the equipment necessary and it's doubtful the Russians can provide exactly what equipment they're familiar with.
