Footage released on Twitter today shows what is allegedly a North Korean round detonating inside of an AZP S-60 anti-aircraft gun being operated by three Russian Soldiers. We have, in the past, seen similar instances of this on the website in other countries from both insurgents and professional militaries and it almost always results in the weapon crew being killed or seriously wounded to the point of needing immediate hospital level medical care.

For full disclosure, we are not able to independently verify that it was a North Korean round that caused the catastrophic destruction of the weapon system. There is just as much a chance that the weapon system was over-used and not maintained correctly as there is of the failure being caused by faulty ammunition. We will likely never know the results of the failure for sure.

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