I don’t know why people are clowning this, pay 10M for one military grade truck or pay 10m for 200 civilian grade trucks that can have inherent camouflage…
Well, disguising military equipment as civilian vehicles just means any enemy is going to target civilian vehicles, but yeah can’t argue with cost efficiency.
Unfortunately any large scale conflict with north Korea is probably going to require just that.
Probably wouldnt be too hard, with North Korea being as poor and hard hit with sanctions as it is, there are few motor vehicles in the country, and in a war time scenario they would likely be using almost every single one (except for the personal vehicles owned by party elites) in a military capacity.
NK already has mandatory military service for 10 years starting at 17 years old. If they went to war they could just draft literally everyone else. Doubt you could consider anyone but the children and the elderly “civilians”
It’ll be very similar to how things went down in Japan during WW2 where they’d militarized all of their civilians
Civilian trucks are expensive decoys compared to balloon or plywood ones, but on balance probably not that bad given that unlike having to make and store pure military decoys, functional civilian trucks make money during peacetime.
This is a valid way to camouflage rocket artillery that was seen in Iraq by US armed forces.
It won’t stop the US and S. Korea from also just bombing every garbage truck if it comes to it, but we then waste a ton of bombs on harmless garbage trucks trying to hit ~100 rocket trucks.
It’s a good idea.
Isn’t that a war crime?
No.
Destroying rocket launchers is a military objective. Killing civilians while trying to achieve a military objective is not a war crime. There is even a term for those civilians: “collateral damage”.
However, killing civilians for its own sake, without a military objective, may be a war crime.
And after the West bombs those vehicles, NGOs will claim that the US were killing civilians. Genius!
Every country that has gone to war has killed civilians.
Maybe stupid but if it works, then it works!
Does it work, though?
World war 3 let’s go
Probably because civilian trucks aren’t as capable as military ones. Hence why none of the respectable militaries in the world go this route.
Well yes, kind of the point of guerilla asymmetric warfare is that you’re not going to succeed using the same tactics as your enemy.
The might of the US military still lost to a Vietnamese army using lots of civilian gear and struggled to manage a bunch of Toyota Hiluxs with light machine guns bolted on in Afghanistan.
My point exactly. Why launchbrockets at your enemies when you can throw trash.
A military truck doesn’t cost anywhere near 10M. Humvees cost $70-100K, a bigger military truck costs about twice that. Considering off-road capability, crew protection, and ease of repair, it’s a far better investment than a dump truck (which costs $100-200K).
Of course those prices don’t include the weapon systems, but dump trucks don’t come standard with rocket launchers either.
Lol, Putin getting these delivered tonight!
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This reminds me of that Russian parade a few months ago where they just rolled the same tank through a couple of times.
I’m uncomfortable with the idea that Kim Jong-Un might be craftier than Putin.
Flashy! Nothing says “We’re super scary” quite like a hay tractor pulling a 1956 howitzer.
Hey, Putin! All this can be yours if the price is right!
They have capabilities to launch nuclear missiles at targets in the western US according to data from their last missile tests.
Then maybe we should treat them as a deadly imminent threat the next time they rattle their sabre as us.
Reminds me of the game Mercenaries Playground of Destruction.
Where one faction had slick military vehicles, while another one had pickup trucks with gun turrets.
This gives a new meaning to the word “shitstorm”
C&C: Generals also had the Middle-Eastern terrorist faction who used pickup-truck-mounted guns (“technicals”) that could be upgraded from the remains of superior enemy vehicles. It was a ton of fun.
You could also send school buses filled with soldiers.
If this dumb ass actually gets into it with a real major power, the entire country will be turned into a lake of fire.
I feel very bad for the citizens.They do not want or deserve any of this.
That’s the threat of North Korea they are so close to Seoul that limited mobility artillery would wreak havoc.
No one on the other end of the rocket cares if it was launched from a tractor and a million dollar mobility platform.
Our military is certainly aware of it.
What military ? South Korea ?
That’s one of them. Can you name the other?
I don’t understand
He means Americans
Ok
What two militaries are most responsible for the defense of South Korea?
Perfect camoflauge.
Just start targeting civilian vehicles.
It’s North Korea, every vehicle is probably owned by their army 😂
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Finally, a new sun rises on the Tankie World Powers, as westoids tremble in their foxholes
We’d technically have to stop calling them tankies if this is the best they can do.
Tonkies?
Uh, have they tested those? That exhaust looks like it would burn up the truck and any unfired rockets.
It looks like the back opens up, so I don’t think that’s a problem.
Fake it till you make it baby!
Those Ron Deera tractors look real nice. Spacious cabs for when you need to cram your whole village in one to stay warm during the winter.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
North Korea celebrated its founding early Saturday in the capital with a military parade that included tractors pulling rocket launchers in front of visiting delegations from China and Russia, the Associated Press reported.
The parade emphasized the “militia” components of North Korea’s military in an attempt to demonstrate the country’s ability to beat back a foreign invasion.
Photos released by North Korean state media show rows of tractors towing what appear to be rocket launchers.
The parade also featured red dump trucks that were modified to hide missile launchers, an effort to signal “the militia’s role as guerilla fighters in a war,” according to Reuters.
No nuclear-capable weapons or intercontinental ballistic missiles appeared to be on display, in contrast with a July parade marking North Korea’s “victory” in the 1950-53 war that cemented the division of the peninsula.
The country’s Worker-Peasant Red Guards are believed to have more than 5 million members, The Korea Herald reported, citing a South Korean government estimate.
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I want a Tonka version of this.
Tape a bunch of drinking straws to the back of a Tonka truck. That’s basically what N Korea have done after all.
Drinking straws with spicy spitballs.
Watching Ukraine / Russia war, tells me this would work.
