Ukraine’s HIMARS Are Blowing Up Russia’s Best North Korean Rocket Launchers
Ukraine reportedly destroyed a KN-09 rocket launcher in Kursk Oblast, striking a blow against Moscow’s foreign weapons pipeline
Ukrainian artillery and drones have taken a heavy toll on Russia’s huge force of mobile rocket launchers, which are some of the Russians’ best weapons for blasting gaps in Ukrainian defenses. So Moscow has turned to its new ally, Pyongyang—and gotten extra launchers.
But for Ukraine, the arrival of these North Korean launchers along the 700-mile front line of Russia’s 39-month wider war on Ukraine isn’t just a threat. It’s also an opportunity—to hunt them down with drones and blow them up with HIMARS.