Uh, have they tested those? That exhaust looks like it would burn up the truck and any unfired rockets.
Fake it till you make it baby!
It looks like the back opens up, so I don’t think that’s a problem.
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…
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.
Maybe stupid but if it works, then it works!
Does it work, though?
A military truck doesn’t cost anywhere near 10M. Humvees cost $70K, maybe double that for a bigger military truck. Considering off-road capability and ease of repair, it’s a far better investment than a dump truck.
Of course those prices don’t include the weapon systems, but dump trucks don’t come standard with rocket launchers either.
My point exactly. Why launchbrockets at your enemies when you can throw trash.
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?
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.
North Korea is Most Economical Korea
I sat reading the comments and nodding along and then realized that all this discourse is essentially 'poor country can’t afford nice things '. I’d be really upset at someone that made fun of a person over the junker they drove because it was all they could afford.
Eh. It’s sad how their military needs to do this when it sucks up so much money already.
If they just invested in their people instead of their war, north korea would be a much better place to live.
Never forget how there is literally only one fat person in the entire state, and that’s their ‘supreme leader.’
How is it not a good place to live? Who have you been listening to?
E: s/got/not
What?
Same comment in upper case.
You’re not making any sense.
Typo corrected.
The NYPD has more funding than North Korea’s entire military. Tell me how many people are going hungry or homeless in New York alone. The US has no excuse whatsoever for relying on slave labor, either. Oh, but thank god we have more than one fat person in New York, so the problem will be perfectly solved when another New Yorker gets fat.
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Poor country can afford nice things, poor county instead spends money on crimes against humanity and propping up a monarchy.
They have the option of joining South Korea anytime they want, that option has always been open to them
To join up with a country that supported this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_Doo-hwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_massacres
The South Korea that was allied with the US, who makes agreements like this to achieve their goals? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ap-us-allowed-korean-massacre-in-1950/
Go look at the status both countries are at today instead of referencing 70 year old events. Whatever path South Korea took clearly worked and North Korea’s path did not. A rational, intelligent person would admit when they were wrong and concede
This is literally it. North Korea is just a poor country that offers its citizens free healthcare and education. If a poor country in Africa became “communist,” you can bet these same people would be laughing at them when kids have to pick up guns to defend themselves from an American invasion. “Ha ha look at those inferior kids thinking they deserve to fight back. Kill them! I wish they died quicker and were sanctioned harder.”
This is more the shitty gun they bought to scare their neighbor. Also, their kids are skipping another meal.
Just to extend that metaphor a little bit:
It’s like making fun of the cheap gun they bought to protect themselves after a gang set up shop in their neighborhood, took over their neighbors house and did a home invasion where 1/5 of the family was killed and the house itself was completely destroyed.
Watching Ukraine / Russia war, tells me this would work.
I don’t buy this, that sort of plucky and ingenius innovation wouldn’t be found in a communist country. More likely they just strap the rockets onto donkeys
N. Korea is not communist. It’s an absolute monarchy.
I want a Tonka version of this.
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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As long as the rockets work 🤷🏻♂️
Perfect camoflauge.
Just start targeting civilian vehicles.
