Name That Plane
We’ve already seen some of North Korea’s newer warplanes. These aren’t exactly new, but there are dozens of them sitting on a runway five miles northeast of Sinuiju.
We’ve already seen some of North Korea’s newer warplanes. These aren’t exactly new, but there are dozens of them sitting on a runway five miles northeast of Sinuiju.
Il-28 bomber?
Correct.
put a KMZ link for the lazy people!
Joshua, back in the late 80s the NKM had an aircraft call the \”colt\”. Light, made of wood, could carry bout 30 troops at low level flight under rader. They still have those? As an E4 in 89 I was working with the Focus Clear exercise in Yongsan. I worked for LT Kim, CAPT Kim, a Major Kim and a reserve Special Forces Captain. We were to submit attacks for the NK Special Forces. They \”NK\” tried to use choppers but were rejected as not having the equipment and the SF Captain asked for ideas. I told him about the Colt and we used it to great effect. Our NK FORCES suffered 80% lost but only after we had secured or destroyed all bridges south of the han river. A fun day had by all. Lt kim even drove me to chow, and told me \”watch this\” as he slowed and than ran a stop sigh with the MPs sitting right there. Ah the good old days. I learned alot of Hangul that week!
You can see lots of them, including one mid-flight. I will post pics in a few days.
According to “community” comments, it was even possible to actually see parachutists dropping out of one of them, but GE seems to have “paved” over that photo with a newer one.
Sorry I missed that one!
That would be the AN-2 “Colt.”
See, also, here.
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i’m used to read google related views, but the direct link is always nice
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Payload is a lot less than 30 troops, and range will depend upon the combat load (weight of troops, weapons, equipment, and parachutes, and such factors as altitude, winds aloft, etc. They should be able to carry about a third of that. Of note, they are not “invisible” to radar, and they lower they fly, the more fuel they burn.
I think 8-10 with full equipment is more like it (a diagram I saw in ROK a long time ago showed 4 fully equipped on each side).
Considering its vulnerability, especially during low level flight, NK forces must plan on extremely high casualty rate.