If, and I repeat if, Moscow did not want anyone to report a flagrant violation of UN resolutions, Russia could supply planes that are already supplied to North Korea, so the MiG-29s are fine even in very updated versions, but I would exclude SU -27 they are well recognizable and it would be difficult to deny their supply, although there could be a loophole that the accusation will be bounced back to whoever supplied them, Russia or China, with both firmly denying the accusation.
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It's an interesting theory, but it will all still depend on how willing Russia is to violate UN sanctions.
Just what would Russia say if suddenly North Korea's arsenal had hundreds of new fighter jets? Fighter jet is something North Korea can't build yet, and there is no way they could buy it from any country other than Russia.
Not to mention that this is an overly optimistic assumption. How can North Korea afford thousands of MiG-23, MiG-27 and MiG-25 fighter jets at the same time?
IMO just providing spare parts to mig29 is enough. What are they gonna do to Russia, sanctions? Don't make me laugh. There is no deterence. What comes down to is if both parties are willing.
Hi,
my opinion if Russian really want SU27 in NK
the only possibility is like Syrian style having a
base there and having those SU27 under their name
without getting further embargo by UN, if they really
care about the embargo
thank you
my opinion if Russian really want SU27 in NK
the only possibility is like Syrian style having a
base there and having those SU27 under their name
without getting further embargo by UN, if they really
care about the embargo
thank you
Embargoes will indeed become useless at this time for Russia. But even so, the idea that they would openly and without-hesitation provide advanced weapons to North Korea is still unbelievable to me.
Russia can transfer blueprints and engineers to North Korea as technical assistance to help them produce domestically. But jet fighters are different: I'm thinking that they will try to make arguments to "reinterpret" the UN resolution, for example.
The Russians can just transfer MiG-29s from storage and paint them in North Korean colors. The North Koreans already have some MiG-29s so there is plausible deniability. They can even upgrade them to MiG-29BM standard and since the changes are internal they wouldn't be visible.
Furthermore, in the recent past they have made/assembled Mig-29s in their aircraft factory, so they could simply resume work (even if some say it was never stopped) to assemble new batches of Mig-29s.
Then there could be help for a possible nationally produced aircraft which could be that single-jet engine immortalized in this famous satellite photo, but in this image some have also noticed structural differences in the SU-25s, and for example some have wings with a very low angle of inclination that are almost straight (red circle). and here again the assumptions are different from being fake aircraft as well as a simplified North Korean variant of the SU-25.
What is certain, these images have aroused enormous curiosity.
Image quality probably screw the Su-25 shapes... the ''wingtip pods'' contain the airbrakes on SU-25, it would be surprising to see them removing these important parts.
Did they have l-39 ?, wing tips tank are very small...probably not visible with that picture quality and they quite look like su-25 with straight wings. But they do look like Su-25.
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From public data the DPRK does not have the L-39, but yes, it could also be a trainer, however from these images it seems that it is twin-engined, who knows maybe they have created a training aircraft/COIN, something that could resemble the Mig/ AT or at Yasin and as a turbojet we could hypothesize the RD-9/WP-6 which is indicated as produced in DPRK , which for the trainer would be sufficient in the version without afterburner.