Masked under civil trucks: the DPRK has sent the Russian Federation "hidden" missile units - Forbes

These missile installations have already appeared in the Kursk region. According to journalists, it can help trucks take a certain position before the attack, but will not help to "avoid Ukrainian artillery". North Korea has sent missile launchers to Russia that hid in civilian trucks, which would make the Armed Forces even less hesitate or strike in civilian cars. Forbes writes about it.

Initially, the DPRK's army demonstrated a variety of civilian trucks and dump trucks with reactive volley fire systems within the military parade, which took place in 2023 in Pyongyan. Recently, a truck equipped with a starting installation appeared in the Kursk region. The starting installation is equipped with 12 ready-made 122 mm missiles. Each of them has a flight range of about 30. 5 km. "The truck launcher is a strange system with potentially limited usefulness," the material authors say.

Hiding starting installations in civilian trucks can help these trucks take a position before a sudden attack on an unprepared opponent. But this will not help them avoid Ukrainian artillery and drones on the battlefield, where Russian regiments already use many thousands of civilian vehicles for military purposes. "Ukrainians rarely hesitate to blow up civilian cars that they find near the front line.

Now, when they know that the North Koreans are hiding rockets in trucks, they will not be even less hesitant," the article reads. Journalists emphasized that starting installations hidden in trucks will probably not be of great importance in the battle for the Kursk region because it is based on the unconcealed North Korean launcher BM-21, which "has lower accuracy than ordinary artillery, and cannot be used in situations that require accurate accuracy.

" It rests with a large number of shells that are scattered over a certain territory to ensure a certain frequency of damage to specific goals. "North Korea may have to send many launchers on trucks to provide sufficient number to get past Ukrainian artillery and drones and prepare for bombing," the journalists said. We will remind, on January 23 Kirill Budanov stated that the DPRK will transfer the Russian Federation in 2025 another 150 ballistic missiles KN-23.