Sea-capable frigate ensures the basic capability to protect trade from hostile interdiction, no matter how it is worded (humanitarian sanctions or whatever).
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From one comment in Secret Projects Forum:
"What can the signed agreement "not excluding military-technical cooperation" mean (for NK Air Force):
"What can the signed agreement "not excluding military-technical cooperation" mean (for NK Air Force):
- In the short term, a significant increase number of operationally deployable MiG-29s and adding ability to use BVR and PGM weapons.
- In the mid-term horizon (after 2025) delivery of a limited number of Su-35.
- In the long term (after 2030), the delivery of a larger number of LTS (Legkiy Takticheskiy Samolyot - Light Tactical Aircraft) with the possibility of more or less extensive localization of production on the territory of the DPRK, which is very feasible and would mean a fundamental reduction in program costs. The LTS can be an ideal tool to balance the deployment of promising aircraft in the south of the peninsula (F-35 and KF-21) and it would be strange if Kim Jong-un did not take an interest in this program during his detailed visit to Komsomolsk."
I am not sure the Su-35 will continue being produced for much longer. Su-57 production is ramping up and will likely pass Su-35 production this year. A dozen Su-57 were produced last year with expectation of production of twice that amount this year. The Su-75 will also eventually be developed. Since all these aircraft are produced in the same facility, it means further increase of Su-57 production will eat into Su-35 production.
Su-35 has some order log to clear first, though.
The public Su-35 orders made pre-war by the Russian Air Force have probably been delivered at this point. Any aircraft being delivered would be from secret contracts made recently. There is also supposedly the Iranian order. But we have seen no evidence of deliveries being made.
The price of acquisition of the Su-57 is similar to that of the Su-35 so there is little point in continuing to manufacture it.
if there are no upheavals within the UN, numerous sanctions and military embargoes against the DPRK remain active, to which Russia has also officially joined.
This does not mean that Moscow cannot "collaborate" with North Korea to help it strengthen its defense system, but it will do so possibly by trying to disguise supplies/aid with systems that the DPRK already has at its disposal, or with systems also several to which it could potentially acquire also outside Russia.
Therefore
1) In the short term, a significant increase in the number of MiG-29s is possible
either with direct supply of second-hand aircraft from Russian stocks or even in newly produced kits which can then be assembled locally (all old and new with modernization)
2) I don't think that Moscow supplying SU-35 would be too obvious to the whole world, but it doesn't take away from the fact that they could supply deeply modernized SU-27 type SU-27SM/SM2
3) In the medium term, help to create a jet trainer aircraft with CAS capability
4) In the long term, barring global and UN developments, not the delivery of a possible LTS (Legkiy Takticheskiy Samolyot - Light Tactical Aircraft), but collaborating for the creation of an indigenous North Korean project for a combat aircraft that could benefit from what was created for LTS, but with a slightly different design to be able to state that it is not an LTS.
This new fighter may be built/assembled officially in DPRK with parts made locally and others that could be supplied by Russia away from prying eyes.
Why? I can't imagine how "not so obvious" it could be when a squadron of Su-35s appeared in Sunchon AB.
In this field, Iran will also be a potential option.
yes, of course, but they had the red star of the Voenno-vozdushnye sily Rossii and not the Chosŏn Inmin Kun Konggun.