 North Korean missile face reality check in Putin's battles. North Korea's new arsenal of ballistic missiles is set for their first real-world test on the battlefield in Ukraine according to Bloomberg, but based on the success of U.S. interceptor systems in that conflict, Kim Jong-un may be worried. As noted, Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed to Kim Jong-un with a request to provide short-range ballistic missiles and more than one million artillery shells. According to weapons experts, the North Korean missiles sent so far are similar in size and flight dynamics to the Russian Iskandar series missiles. A report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies showed that the American Patriot Air Defense System is still largely effective in countering Russian missiles. In June, when Russia tried to disable the Patriot Battery Defending Cave, the system shut down all 34 Iskandar and Dagger missiles fired by Russia. There's a warning to Putin about the KN-23 and KN-24 missiles. Kim is believed to be supplying. The systems are designed to be deployed quickly, maneuverable in flight, and reliably hit targets with a degree of precision. That might not be enough. The Patriot Missile Defense System should be able to intercept North Korea's short-range ballistic missiles given its effectiveness against Russian Iskandars, said Shan Shaik, a fellow in the Missile Defense Project at CSIS, a Washington-based think tank.