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Kim Jong Un visits a secret underground strategic missile base.
Hwasong-18 solid-fuel ICBMs.
Hwasong-12nA hypersonic glide vehicles.
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Strange that I still see it displayed?
Same.
North Korea indigenous fighter, similar to MiG-15 (the below one is a real MiG-15, for illustration purposes only).
According to a former North Korean defector pilot, two of them were built in the mid-1980s at an underground factory near Suncheon, South Heian Province, and they looked like the MiG-15s. They were powered by Soviet-made engines, and during a test flight, the fuselage shook violently while flying. Perhaps for this reason, they have not developed any more domestically-produced aircraft since then.
If they had continued to pursue the project, North Korea would have had a light trainer-attack aircraft, albeit a rudimentary one.
According to a former North Korean defector pilot, two of them were built in the mid-1980s at an underground factory near Suncheon, South Heian Province, and they looked like the MiG-15s. They were powered by Soviet-made engines, and during a test flight, the fuselage shook violently while flying. Perhaps for this reason, they have not developed any more domestically-produced aircraft since then.
If they had continued to pursue the project, North Korea would have had a light trainer-attack aircraft, albeit a rudimentary one.
you always have to pay attention to what military defectors say, however it is established that the North Koreans have worked to modify Mig-15 & 17 with the installation of 4 hard points under the fuselage,
they also modified the Mig-15 UTI by adding a sort of hump that starts from behind the cockpit up to the vertical rudder, probably contains a fuel tank that increases the flight autonomy.
In any case, despite the age of these aircraft, to be able to keep them in flight condition, the North Koreans must have either a considerable reserve of spare parts of all types and structural parts, or have matured the ability to produce them in the DPRK, including new engines or overhaul them at zero hours.
So it is possible that North Korea using the old Mig-15UTI, Mig-15Bis & Mig-17 already in their possession or "new" rebuilt/assembled locally have still put online albeit rudimentary, a trainer aircraft and two types of light attack aircraft.
I want to remember that Mig-15 & Mig-17 for light attack have:
Guns: one 37mm and two 23mm - 1+1 hard point under the wings also for additional tanks and now 4 hard points under the fuselage.
Now I think this is the past, but they have also gained experience in the sector, including the assembly of the Mig-29, so I expect to see something new from them soon.
Also in the late 1980s (1986?), North Korea has been in talks with Romania to manufacture IAR aircraft under license, which included
IAR-93 fighter-bomber
and IAR-316 light utility helicopter, for which North Korean technicians were supposed to undergo training in France.
While the IAR-93s would have presented a welcome improvement over the aging MiG-15s and MiG-17s, this deal (again) failed to materialize however. It was believed that Britain and France, the two countries that supplied the relevant technology for the two aircraft models, discovered the negotiation and immediately blocked it fiercely.
IAR-93 fighter-bomber
and IAR-316 light utility helicopter, for which North Korean technicians were supposed to undergo training in France.
While the IAR-93s would have presented a welcome improvement over the aging MiG-15s and MiG-17s, this deal (again) failed to materialize however. It was believed that Britain and France, the two countries that supplied the relevant technology for the two aircraft models, discovered the negotiation and immediately blocked it fiercely.
Flight path of South Korean UAV according to data extracted and released by North Korea
compared to the locations of air defense missile batteries and radars around Pyongyang.
It looks like they are invading from an area with little radar (concentric blue circles).
compared to the locations of air defense missile batteries and radars around Pyongyang.
It looks like they are invading from an area with little radar (concentric blue circles).