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sahureka said:

to mix the cards and make it difficult to precisely identify who delivered what, there could be the option of the SU-27 family, to which the J-11 also belongs, or the North Koreans who came into possession of a couple of examples purchased who knows where , they make a clone "without permission".
But maybe we are just fantasizing and DPRK already has its own indigenous project and all it needs is collaboration to realize it and put it into production.
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Will be a good partner for "illegally copied" MiG-29/Su-27s :3

...IF (a big one) this thing is real.

Valiant 1002 said:

1. True, Russia does not have such a thing (the closest thing is the Su-25), and Yugoslavia is long dead. But the idea here is that Russia would provide the necessary technology and expertise for Pyongyang to help them design such a thing domestically. Some advanced components such as avionics can be secretly imported.

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Su-25, iirc, was as expensive as a Mig-29.
it was not a smart plane, sure, but it's toughness came at a cost.

Gloire_bb said:

(1)Russia doesn't have anything like that
(2)sounds like a rather useless AMRAAM eater

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actually an interesting little jet trainer aircraft in Russia was made by a small company and also built and flown as a prototype, this is the KB SAT SR-10.

So if they wanted in Russia they have the design capabilities to also supply a small single-engine Jet Trainer.
But given the age of the majority of the DPRK's air fleet, it would be more appropriate that for any local production, the aircraft could also have a good secondary capacity to be used in attack missions or, starting from the same aircraft, also create a single-seat version with more marked war characteristics, therefore an aircraft in the category of Mig-AT / Yak-130 if twin-engine, or JL-9/ FTC-2000G if single-engine.

And let's not forget that North Korea is converting its IL-76 transport planes into AWACS. They won't do it without some upgrades to their fighter fleet:

Neither China nor Russia want to use their nuclear power first. From now on they'll have Kim here, he won't be afraid. Great move by Putin.

yugocrosrb95 said:

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This would likely legitimize sending North Korean soldiers and personnel to provide military support in Ukraine, considering that Russia would consider itself "under attack" if Ukrainian UAVs, F-16s and cruise missiles attack targets within Russian territory.

If they start using NATO supplied cruise missiles to directly strike Russian territory then Russia already said they will strike military facilities operated by NATO. Possibly those operating in other countries. And then this could escalate further.
NATO should hopefully know better than to do this, because their overall air defense capability is terrible. They are way more vulnerable to cruise missile strike than Russia is.

Well.

South Korea selling those 300k shells was their single most stupid decision in decades, undermining 3 decades of herculean effort to isolate North Korea at all costs.

Noticing that, unlike Ukraine, Russia is a far eastern nation, bordering North Korea - could be done by a single look at the map.
Yet this single look was apparently too much.