Posted on 12/31/2023 11:19:43 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
A dormant North Korean port near the border with Russia has sprung back to life, fueling what experts say is a burgeoning trade in arms destined for the frontlines in Ukraine that is simultaneously bolstering the anemic economy managed by Kim Jong Un.
Satellite imagery of the Najin port taken from October to December shows a steady stream of ships at the facility, hundreds of shipping containers being loaded and unloaded, and rail cars ready to transport goods.
The activity appears to have picked up since early October, when the U.S. accused North Korea of sending munitions to Russia. The White House provided imagery it said showed weapons later being delivered thousands of miles away to a depot in the Russian town of Tikhoretsk for use in Ukraine.
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The article fails to mention that the NORK intercontinental strategic capability is being overhauled by the Russians in return. The Russians have access to as many of the millions and millions of NORK artillery rounds they want. Russian industry has been fully mobilized for war and they are probably even increasing their reserves as they maul the Ukes with unlimited artillery.
Looks like the neo-reds and the neo-cons have found a common cause: War Profits.
A Russian blogger apparently published photos of North Korean artillery shells that had been disassembled. The propellant was clumped and in places congealed on the sides of the shells. This causes the shells to fall short or go too far or explode in the barrel. Several years ago the North shelled an island owned by the South. Only a tiny percentage of the shells hit the island. The rest under or overshot the target by a significant amount. The shells have several issues including poor quality control and the ones Russia is getting are the oldest ones, some dating to the Korean war. That’s problem one. The blogger said some of them had simply exploded in the gun killing the crew.
Are the shells useful? Remember the artillery is behind the lines. If the shells fall short, then they’ll be falling into Russian held territory. (I went looking for this article. I think the publisher was Perun, but he didn’t list these photos in the key words list.)
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A Ukrainian artillery commander told FT his troops don't like using the weapons, which were made in the 1980s and ‘90s, because they can often misfire or fail to explode. One soldier said, “They are very unreliable and do crazy things sometimes.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-using-north-korean-rockets-against-russian-forces-2023-7
Russia’s war production has surged 7 fold, with 840 T-72B3s delivered to the Russian army in 2023, compared to 120 units in 2020. They have left NATO and the collective west flat footed.
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“Looks like the neo-reds and the neo-cons have found a common cause: War Profits.”
So the Norks are doing what we are supposedly doing for Ukraine, giving old stuff destined for the scrap heap.
I seriously doubt your information.
Has anyone found youtube videos of N. Korean crowds of emaciated, starving people? I looked. I did not.
This is from the linked article.
“During North Korea’s artillery bombardment of South Korea’s front-line Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 that killed four people, Bennett said that only 80 of the 300-400 weapons North Korea should have fired likely hit their target. In his assessment, Lee said about half of the North Korean shells launched ended up falling into waters before reaching the island.”
I worked for General Dynamics, not in the powder plant, which is few miles from me, but I know some of the engineers. I also have personal experience with powder used in Israeli 20mm shells. The powder is nothing like that used in bullets. The 20mm shells I worked on had tiny granules, the diameter and weight of which were precisely controlled. Each granule had to be within a certain specification. Now these shells were being fired from a Vulcan cannon. They’re fired electrically and don’t fly out of the barrel for, if I recall, two revolutions after the firing pulse. If the powder has clumped together, they may not fire until the shell gets ejected into the wing, where it explodes.
The photos I saw of the interior of the North Korean shells looked as if the powder was packaged in some kind of container looking like straws, probably with a set number of “straws” in each shell. But the straws had compacted, possibly with age and moisture from poor sealing or bad storage conditions. The ones on the DMZ are in deep, and doubtless damp, bunkers.
The casings are metal. If they aren’t perfectly sealed the moister gets in. Time and poor storage conditions are enemies of powder. It’s hard to visualize the paranoid North Koreans sending their most recently produced shells to Russia. American shells age out and are either rebuilt or destroyed, depending on a number of factors I don’t recall now.
BTW, on the Vulcan cannon example, I said two revolutions. I meant the barrel indexes two positions after being electrically fired before the electrically fired shell exits the barrel. It’s accelerating during that time. That’s why the timing must be perfect. The powder MUST burn at a predictable rate.
If you fire a pistol cartridge whether it takes .0001 seconds or .o1 seconds to burn is not relevant. Timing probably isn’t that relevant to an artillery shell, but consistent and predictable burn rate is critical to accuracy. (Not sure I got that across in the previous post.)
One simple question, if any of this is true, why are the Russians transporting it half way around the world to fire duds? You would think after the first 25,000 duds the Russians would figure it out and would stop wasting their time and effort. Maybe the Russians just didn’t notice. THINK!
Why load it on a ship and either send it to Vladivostok or around Asia (and maybe Africa) to the Black Sea to Russia? Just load it on a train car and send it by rail. (Of course the container would either need to be transferred at the border, or the bogies switched out, since the Norks use standard gauge (4’8.5”) and the Ruskis use broad gauge (5’). More likely if they are using ships is that the Norks are selling to the Ukes.
They are firing what they can get their hands on. Isn’t that obvious?
“The (North Korean) shells have several issues including poor quality control”
If I recall correctly, the dud rate was estimated about 15%, with a variety of failure modes - so about the odds of Russian roulette. Most duds probably just fail to detonate on impact.
Inaccuracy due to range variance is probably in addition to the duds.
North Korea is also increasing their new production, but I don’t have a feeling for how significant that is overall.
“840 T-72B3s delivered to the Russian army in 2023, compared to 120 units in 2020.”
Those are refurbished out of inventory. T-72s are not manufactured new anymore.
Absolutely not. There were sitting on vast reserves in the first place. The generals running the Russian military were trained by the generals who, using primarily artillery, attacked and defended this very area several times against the Nazis. They’ve known for seventy years what was coming. Their reserves are vast. Unlike the imbeciles in the West, the Russians have had their industry in war footing for over a year now. They are producing, brand new, more than they are consuming. The Russians are much, much, much stronger today than they were two years ago.
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