Ananda
The Bunker Group
South Korea is open to tech co-op, when the tech is theirs. The point in previous post that I made, more to the problem that the like of ROK, India and Turkey MIC face in global competition. Problem that their MIC still using many other people tech. When the tech is theirs, then they are relative more open comparing to others more mature MIC players.South Korean deals with Poland seem to indicate significant technical openness.
Like I said before, the game now for most Arms Export market, is the willingness to open tech transfer. Most arm imported nations want to reduce their imports in time, and build their own domestic MIC. So prediction the pace of Imports will be reduce on those big imports market, and change with whose going to be biggest providers of tech. Doesn't means imports will gone, but the scope in time on those big imports market will change to parts supplies on MIC to MIC supply chains.
I don't want to comment much on the war in this thread, as it's supposed to be on other thread topic. However as I mentioned on the other thread, both sides shown enough debacles, which made this war turn into this grinding attrition war since May last year. Thus I don't see any sides will change that soon this year. Any progress from either sides in the ground will come on grinding costs.all that, the Ukrainians did much, much better than the Russians early on.
Thus the point that I made in previous points more related toward Ukranian abilities to strike deeps into Russian soils 'significantly'. Especially something that will reduce Russian MIC infrastructure.
I don't see even with more Western supplies, Ukraine will be able to hit Russian MIC facilities within deep in Russian proper much. Ukrainian MIC practically destroyed in the early phase of war, because that's part of Russian strategy. However thinking Ukrainian can retaliate the same way toward Russian MIC will not happen. Unless this War already turn in to hot war with NATO committed their own boots in the ground. Which we know this means WW3.
Ukrainian use drones and covert operations will not done much toward Russian MIC infrastructure. Yes they can do some 'small' damages as they already shown in their incursions toward Russian based in Russian proper. However this mostly just so far act more as 'symbolics' attacks that good for Political and Moral points. Not really done something that change much in the ground.
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