yep. and NoKo is 100% domestic made.
Most of it is Ork-tier tech though, often held together with spit and duct tape and run on the power of hopes, prayers, and delusions!!
If SoKo beats NoKo in a war without outside help militarily, it will be a first in human history - that an importer army has defeated an indegenous army in the industrial era.
What??!! Good Korea produces most of its equipment in-house - from rifles to tanks and artillery, and compared to that of their northern cousins, their stuff might as well be from effing Andromeda (I know, I know, they are dependent on outsiders for some critical subsystems)!!
I mean, seriously, have you seen the North Korean tanks??!! It's nothing short of a miracle that they can move around those hunks of rustbuckets on their own power!!
ofcourse, this doesnt apply to India-pakistan because between the two its a race to who is a bigger importer.
Yeah, but that's changing, though.
But its the same reason i will say India, if it fights China, will lose or be forced to make history.
Unlikely. Come out worse off - yes, absolutely, but outright lose?? I don't think so.
This is why i push for substandard dehati desi maal over phoren maal.
Coz dehati desi maal has won over phoren import maal in wars in last 200 years - the reverse has never happened.
No disagreement there.
Also you do not understand the war scenario of NoKo vs SoKo.
The heart of SoKo economy is Seoul. As well as its population base. Thats about 40% of SoKo GDP and 30% of its population....and Seoul-Incheon megacity is like 25km from the border.
True.
NoKo doesnt need sophisticated shit. They only need numbers. Because their doctrine is 'can you stop approx 5,000 tanks, 10,000 APCs and 5,000 artillery (of all kinds) marching 25kms ? coz if you cant, you lose as i blow up Seoul-Inchon'.
NoKo tanks are less than jokes and likely wouldn't count for anything (plus the terrain across the DMZ makes the employment of tanks in an offensive role extremely difficult)!! The biggest threat to South Koreans would come from their artillery and tactical ballistic missiles.
But at any rate, South Koreans have far better artillery pieces and very likely, in greater numbers than the NoKos too (South Korean Army fields one of the largest arsenals of 155mm howitzers in the world)!!
For THIS mission, what a poor nation needs, is quantity. Not quality. And that is exactly what NoKo has - shit tons of quantity of indegenously produced ww2 era crap.
Nah, that could take only so far. And South Koreans have a shit ton of quantity as well and much much better quality too.
That will suffer 50:1 losses, but its okay, coz they have 100:1 numerical odds and they dont need to manage supply lines of 100s of kms with ww2 vehicular logistics, they need to go the distance between Raj path in New Delhi and greater Noida.
Only that the NoKos do not enjoy nearly as great a numerical advantage, heck, if anything, at present, they are at a significant numerical disadvantage in terms of some very critical equipment and even the basic ones!!