North Korean Tank Spotted on Ukrainian Front Lines
If there were any questions about how Russia’s military partnership with North Korea would manifest in Ukraine, we’re now starting to get answers.
A rare North Korean ‘missile truck’, as we used to call them, has been spotted in the wild along the front lines in Ukraine.
I analyzed the image provided by the Telegram channel @KUPua01, and it appears Russian forces are now using the North Korean Bulsae-4 long-range, self-propelled anti-tank missile system, mounted to an armored vehicle, against Ukrainian troops.
Based on the limited information we have available in US intelligence, this missile system is presumably pretty advanced, capable of hitting targets over 10 kilometers away, (but it could be as far as 25 km) even if they’re out of the operator’s line of sight.
This is why we call the Bulsae-4 a NLOS ATGM (Non-Line-of-Sight Anti-Tank Guided Missile).
Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance spotted it in a specific frontline sector.
The secretive nature of the DPRK’s military means the Bulsae-4 is still a bit of a mystery since there’s not much verified data on it.
In fact, the Bulsae-4 was first publicly revealed by North Korean state television as recently as June 2016, showing the missile system launched…
