North Korea: Threat or Blackmailer?

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

numbers aren't everything, but they do say somethings:

That chart looks like it was made by a high school student and is about as accurate.
If North korea has 700 fighter jets then my name is Alice Cooper.
Also to note is that some of the hyped up F-22s and B-2s that were out there are back in the US and they are grounded becaue of the sequestartiatationtartersaucetion crapola.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

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If North korea has 700 fighter jets then my name is Alice Cooper.
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From the Library of Congress Document I linked earlier (p.252 actual 291 acrobat reader)

the [North Korean]air force has about 110,000 airmen and is equipped with an aging fleet of more than 1,600 aircraft that includes about 780 fighters, 80 bombers, 300 helicopters, 300 An–2 biplanes, and more than 100 support craft. About 70 percent of the fixed-wing aircraft are first- and second-
generation Soviet-made fighters and bombers, including MiG–15,
–17, –19, and –21 fighters and Il–28 fighter-bombers. The air force
also has many third- and fourth-generation Soviet-made aircraft such
as MiG–23 and MiG–29 fighters and Su–25 ground attack aircraft.

Among its rotor-wing fleet are a significant number of Mi–2s, Mi–4s, Mi–8s, Mi–17s, and Hughes–500 multirole helicopters.

Can I call you Alice now?
(I understand they aren't a threat per se because they are aging, and their pilots get an average of 20 hours flying time a year, just numbers that would have to be shot down)

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

From the Library of Congress Document I linked earlier (p.252 actual 291 acrobat reader)


Can I call you Alice now?
(I understand they aren't a threat per se because they are aging, and their pilots get an average of 20 hours flying time a year, just numbers that would have to be shot down)

Good researching.

How many of them are operational?
Cause if they cant fly then they are just lawn ornaments.
If you look at them on Google earth, thats what they appear to be.

And I find it amusing that you would bother to list the AN-2s.

[Alvin Walton]

Phear the mighty AN-2.
160 MPH top speed.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

Phear the mighty AN-2.
160 MPH top speed.

lol

for the record, I just took the words right off the page, and only so that I could call you Alice :cheeky-sm