NORTH KOREA'S AIR FORCE IS TOTAL JUNK (BUT IT CAN STILL KILL) #WARTHOGDEFENSE

[Music] North Korea South Korean People's Army Air Force referred to as the air and anti air force command in South Korean documents is not in the top ranks of the world's air forces however the North Korean forces are fanatically devoted to Kim jong-un and the Kim regime which more resembles a Confucian monarchy with Stalinist stylings than soviet-style communism the regime's survival as their survival and thus the so called Korean People's Army is a dedicated to their supreme leader and is likely to put up a fanatical defense in the event of a renewed war even the antiquated junk that the kPa possesses can be used to good effect by a fanatically determined dummy among the most antiquated and obsolete aircraft in the North Korean Air Force is the Shenyang j5 a Chinese copy of the 1950s aremy creon Gurevich MIG 17 fresco North Korea is thought to possess roughly 106 of the antiquated fighters another antique fighter in the North Korean inventory is the Shen yang j6 a Chinese derivative of ameica Yan yurevich mig-19 farmer then North Koreans have roughly 97 of the obsolete supersonic fighters both the j5 and the j6 are hopelessly obsolete and if anything during regular combat operations would simply be missile sponges for American and South Korean fighters and surface-to-air missile batteries in fact that is perhaps not a bad mission for these aircrafts surface-to-air missiles and weapons such as the aim-120 amraam are expensive and inventories are relatively limited shooting them down with Sokka final inventories of interceptor missiles if for example if war were to break out at a North Korean j5 were to cross into South Korean airspace in an attempt to attack a ground target like force would shoot it down but even a single Patriot pack 3 missile costs more than three million dollars moreover interceptor missiles are usually salvo de in pairs during an operational launch thus while the North Korean loses an antique j5 the United States would have expended six million dollars in the used a proportion of its missile inventory that might have been better utilized to defend against a more important threats such as a ballistic missile even an air-to-air missile shot using an N rom would cost well over a million dollars especially if it was a late-model aim-120 D however in the event of a war the United States and South Korea couldn't simply avoid engaging such an aerial target especially if it was a civilian installation or some sort vital military asset moreover against an enemy like North Korea there is no way for the defender to know that such an attacking aircraft is not carrying some sort of chemical or biological weapon in which case even shooting the aircraft down is problematic there is also the outside chance that the north korean forces are as fanatically as the imperial japanese were during world war ii as noted earlier north korean less resembles an Eastern European communist state than it does an Asian monarchy in many ways as the Japanese demonstrated during the Second World War there is no better weapons guidance system than a kamikaze pilot indeed while j5 and J 6 are basically useless as fighters they would be great cruise missiles loaded up with bombs on a one-way trip if even only a few got through to their targets it might be worth it for a regime that knows that it is about to be destroyed [Music]

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Length: 3min 30sec (210 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 04 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/romeo123456]

The South Koreans are already have f-35s. Which will soon total to at least 60.

Can you imagine being a NK pilot in a Mig 17 and going against an f-35? Lord have mercy.

[u/Russ_Dill]

Relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxnfS1kB8CE

Note aircraft in the simulators. People mock the walking things out with "toy" airplanes, but really it's a common technique.

[u/RoebuckThirtyFour]

I mean look up north korean airfields on google maps teen MiG's still line up next to the runways

[u/shadow_moose]

Most estimates of North Korean air power are overestimates. They do have a lot of airframes available, but most of them are unsafe and many have been grounded to be cannibalized for parts. It's known that pilot training is lackluster, but we don't really know how awful it is on the average. We do know that there has been a dramatic reduction in operational airframes, but we don't know whether it's a result of repeated crashes, or the planes are simply getting to old to be operational and they aren't receiving the maintenance they need.

Due to the cost of modern weapons, even the few modern aircraft they do have are flown by woefully unprepared pilots who may not have even fired the guns on the aircraft prior to any engagement they may find themselves in.

They have 24 MiG-29s last I checked, and those seem to be the pinnacle of their armament. Who knows what kind of missiles they have for them, or whether all 24 aircraft are still flying at this point.

Most of their aircraft are older MiGs. With the most advanced aircraft any North Korean pilot will ever fly being the MiG-21, it's unlikely that NK airpower would even last three days if war were to break out, definitely not an entire week. It's more likely that they would leave most aircraft grounded or try to hide them away so they could sustain air operations longer. It would make no sense for them to go balls to the wall and lose all their aircraft in the first fight, but they still have no hope of shooting down anything other than a super tucano with that airforce. The real threat they present is the SAM threat. As it stands, their air force exists almost entirely for ground attack, and those capabilities are generally pretty poor, too.

[u/CrouchingToaster]

The higher ups know their military can't compare, which is why they are putting so much time, money, and resources into their Nuclear program.

[u/Guermantesway]

While we might laugh at these relics, they also operate a fleet of Mig-29B and likely a few Mig-29SE, which do need to be taken seriously

[u/SovietSteve]

Mig 17 would still be good for ground attack

[u/Eremenkism]

Haven't seen the video but like many neighbouring air forces they operate a healthy mix of old models, Cold War veterans and modern aircraft. Nothing unusual about their arsenal.