@karn @DingDong
I dont know what you guys are tripping up over this whole going begging not begging about ammo.
Lets get real here.
Ammo stockpile is a recurrent issue with armies since the age of gunpowder came to be and rich/poor countries go up and down the ammo stockpile over time for extended periods due to military and socio-political factors.
As it stands now. China is a dark zone, but we can make educated guesses about their ammo stockpile from their industrial capacity to be the largest in the world at this point and comfortable for them to get to 2-3 years of major one front war at the very least without restocking.
India, to my knowledge, sits in the 2-4 months zone for broad spectrum ammunition stockpiles. Maybe slightly lower even.
Shockingly to some but not to most keen observers, USA and NATO nations have surprisingly low stockpiles but the reason is understandable : when you dont see any credible military threat to yourself and war for 30 years, with the only wars you see is brutalizing ' savages' with far less tech power and logistics power, you go for the scapel, not the sledgehammer approach : you end up specialising in high end expensive weaponry (such as himars) that are all about surgical strike and not area saturation.
Being under Murrican security umbrella and just doing these, means yuo get to neglect your military for 30 years and run ammo stockpiles in the 1 month max capacity for full spectrum war. Because by then, murrica wouldve arrived.
How much does Murrica have/did Murrica have before Ukronazi war went full spectrum ? About 1 years supply for major operations, aka Gulf War-1 type of operation.
Now, where does NoKo fall under this ? NoKo is a military statistical outlier in EVERY possible way known to mankind.
Poor country, yet surprisingly high tech in the ' big ticket' N stuff. Small country but positively YUUUGE military.
its not because NoKo is crazy paranoid idiot batshit like the west tries to call it, its because that is a calculated response from NoKo military leadership, most of whom cut their teeth in the korean war itself.
The simple reality of NoKo at war is, ' NoKo must march 60km past the DMZ and then NoKo wins war' in the immediate landmass.
Why ? Because Seoul is the beating heart of Korea in every single fashion and Seoul is less than 60Km from DMZ.
Both sides know this - SoKos arent stupid to not know that if NoKo military arrives in Seoul, it game over : 20-25% of SoKo economy and demographic manpower base is instantly crushed.
So what does a developed economy do to handle this existential threat ? go down the tech & maginot line approach. Make the area north of Seoul a killing field for infantry & armor movements.
What does NoKo do to guarantee a win ? Get YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.
Play the ' my tanks are shit, you will kill them like bong kills rui. Sure. But i have nearly 4000 of them, being backed by 15,000 artillery pieces. Oh and a one MEERIOON strong active army ants. I need to go 60km, can you stop me ?' game.
This is the status quo anitbellum scenario of Korean Peninsula since the mid 60s till now.
This means, NoKo, by virtue of its military doctrine, is in the top 5 artillery powers on the planet, while occupying a likely top 3 spot in terms of actual ammo stockpile due to the extremely short escalation ladder for Korean pen. war to happen. This is because NoKo expects the war to go full blast for about a month and then SoKo is dead, as US may not be able to move logistics into SoKo by a month if its bogged down elsewhere or if China does a blockade. Which means enough ammo for an army of 15,000 arty pieces to go kaboom for a month straight. That is pretty much the stockpile equivalent of what Murrica had in the cold war days, nevermind today.
Which means, if your arty is compatible with whatever ' Gogureyo Trump-uh' fatty has and you make him your friend then its a YUUUUGE payoff for your supply chain logistics.