North Korea's Air Force

Between their fighters and bombers, North Korea fields a handful of aircraft from China, Russia and the former Soviet Union.

#military #airforce #northkorea

[werewolf]

Hey look it's a flying museum. Its impressive how they managed to keep these flying.

[bedipuss]

“Damn my grandfather fought against the same planes”

[datankz]

For those who don’t know. All of those except for the Mig-29 and I think maybe the SU-25 are 3rd generation aircraft. For reference, the F22 is a 5th generation aircraft, the Dassault Rafale is 4.5th generation, the F16 is 4th generation, the Eurofighter Typhoon is 4.5th generation. Majority of NK’s air arsenal are 2nd-3rd gen aircraft.

[stevenrs]

Props to their maintainers for keeping those old birds in the air.

[dovlacro]

US Air Force: When your missile cost more then all enemy squadron.

[doodskie]

Damn North Korea is really into the vintage keeping enthusiast type of guy with these planes

[pootmahgoots]

US Air Force: "You really want to do this?"

[ChalkInTheLand]

We would call this an antique air show, or a reenactment of a Korean War battle in the US

[bryanp.]

I was talking to a native South Korean who lives in South Korea, and he said that each time they do a drill like these, they lose atleast 1 plane.

[Machineheadtim]

Wow it's impressive that they managed to keep that many 2nd and 3rd generation fighters going but it sad to say that all of those are defenseless against a 4th and 5th generation fighters a squadron of f16s could probably take down a good percentage of those. if we sent f22 or f35 at them they are completely screwed

[MrEvilTag]

thats like rolling up with a stock model t asking for a street race

[Djrealfake]

I didn't even need you to zoom in I can see the mig 21's from here oof

[Brickbossman]

Sad part is their pilots probably think they would win

[Yoshaz]

Fighting these museum pieces with 5th Gen fighters is similar to a buff dude picking a fight with a wheelchair-bound kid.

[ZootyZoFo]

Don’t forget about the awesome skills of N. Korean pilots due to their intensive training programs.

[NinjaSushi]

It's kind of funny to think that one of the Korean soldiers might be flying the same plane their father or grandfather flew.

[ryancooke]

I'd be surprised if North Korea had 10 qualified pilots for those 600 combat aircraft.

[roamingwaters]

Damn North Korea would be balling in WW2

[borttorbbq]

I mean that's completely respectable those are all good Fighters of the respective generation but those are outdated by quite a lot. So I don't really see that going very well

[warwombat_]

You sir have become the face of confrontation within the globe. Ty