North Korea turns MiG-17 fighters into kamikaze drones

Against the backdrop of major changes that UAVs have made on the battlefield, the DPRK decided to acquire fleet major percussion drones.

The North is trying to turn Soviet fighters into Drones- kamikaze equipped with explosives

- said Choi Soo Ryong, a former South Korean intelligence agent NIS, citing his sources in the DPRK.

According to The Korean Times, North Korea owns a fleet of more than 400 Soviet aircraft, from MiG-17s built in the 1950s to MiG-29s commissioned in the 1980s. According to the ex-intelligence officer, hundreds of aircraft have already undergone modernization in kamikaze UAVs.

It is noted that Pyongyang has long used remotely controlled aviation systems with the appropriate technology. Therefore, the DPRK has the competencies necessary to transform MiG-17 aircraft into full-fledged strike UAVs.

These jet fighters are capable of carrying cargo weighing over a ton. For example, the weight of the Iskander-M OTRK warhead is about 500 kg. That is, theoretically stuffed with a warhead, the MiG-17 can be twice as destructive as the Russian missile system.

Against the background of the DPRK's progress in the field of drones, a special command was created in South Korea in June in charge of combating UAVs.

Comments

[Bolt cutter]

Do they have anything for sale? Is the electronics Chinese or your own?

[NNikolaich]

They have a lot of things to sell, or trade.
They have the same shells of the USSR caliber

[smart fellow]

Is the electronics Chinese or your own?

They could buy equipment using outdated technologies in China. It becomes obsolete faster than it physically wears out. You will not enter the world market with these chips, but they are quite suitable for missiles and UAVs. Most likely it is. The DPRK kept the borders with China and Russia closed for 3 years, but showed great progress in the development of military equipment.

Do they have anything for sale?

Kim Jong-un inspected factories for the production of engines for cruise missiles, launchers (they have armored ones), large-caliber missiles and small arms and urged them to multiply production. For this purpose, a number of plants have installed new high-performance CNC machines and instrumentation. In addition, a new LARGE GROUND plant for the production of ammunition is being built, and they began to build it, apparently, after the arrival of Shoigu and have already laid the foundation. The fact is that in the DPRK all military factories are underground for well-known reasons (the dominance of enemy aircraft in the air), and production growth is limited by the size of the factories, which are tunnels in the mountains or underground.

[Andriuha077]

LARGE GROUND FACTORY...and production growth is limited by the size of the plants, which are tunnels in the mountains or underground.

We have to cooperate.
Let it be a GROUND LARGE tunneling shield plant.

New mining machine produced by Yasinovatsky machine-building plant
“The tunneling machine manufactured by the Yasinovatsky Machine-Building Plant (DPR) in cooperation with the Ilma (Tomsk) and TorgInvest (KEMZ Kemerovo) enterprises will be used for mining operations at a diamond mining enterprise in Yakutia. The equipment fully complies with the import substitution program,” said a representative of the Government of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Earlier it was reported that Donetsk and Tomsk agreed to modernize the industrial enterprises of the DPR together. The speech, in particular, was about the application of scientific innovations of Tomsk scientists in the Republic.
The first import-substituting tunneling machine will work at the mine named after S.D. Tikhov. Mining equipment is a joint product of the machine builders of the Yasinovatsky Machine-Building Plant (DPR), the Kuzbass Electric Machine-Building Plant (TorgInvest, Kemerovo) and the Ilma company (Tomsk).
Read details.
We have an operating plant in Yasinovataya that manufactures tunneling shields, it works like this - an underground unit is going, leaving behind large concrete tunnels.

[Rumata]

The Chinese massively modernize the decommissioned An-2 as UAVs.
The Russians are still harnessing. But they could have received funds for the destruction of all sorts of bridges and tunnels. Any decommissioned Boeing, 50 tons of tortilla on board with decoys, heat traps, electronic warfare, will simply blow away any railway bridge.

[blackGRAIL]

Any Boeing will not be saved by any means of electronic warfare, LC and TL, and it will be blown away when entering the zone of destruction of the air defense system. The history of American gunships has demonstrated this perfectly. But the An-2 has always been a difficult target for the IA and SAM.

[Aviator_]

But the An-2 has always been a difficult target for the IA and SAM.

Only for Armenian IA and SAM. They even have unbreakable Turkish "Bayraktars".

[blackGRAIL]

The An-2 has a lower radar and thermal signature than a "regular" aircraft. Especially if during operation a number of metal parts are replaced with wooden or linen ones.

[Rumata]

Quote from: blackGRAIL

Any Boeing will not be saved by any means of electronic warfare, LC and TL

How many times did ukry hit the Antonovsky bridge?

[Emil]

And what should we 'harness' ... I think if anything, Tu-141 "Swift", Tu-143 "Flight", Tu-243 (VR-3D, "Reis-D", etc., etc.) P.

[fa2998]

Didn't ours sell? We had a Kometa rocket made just on the basis of the MiG-17! Only you can probably see it for hundreds of kilometers, and the GOS should be modern. Isn't the DPRK already one of the leaders in electronics?

[chamberlain]

North Korea surprises me more and more ..! Well done .. You see Shoigu did not just go to them.

[Rus2012]

jet fighters are capable of carrying cargo weighing over a ton. For example, the weight of the Iskander-M OTRK warhead is about 500 kg. That is theoretically, a MiG-17 armed with a warhead could be twice as destructive as a Russian missile system.

Autr, "sturgeon is cut"!
Aerobalic Iskander flies at near hypersonic speed. The energy of his impact, even without explosives, is a quadratic function of speed.

And the MiG-17 has less than 1000 km / h.
Draw your own conclusions!

[alystan]

Unless the MiG-17 makes a high hill and dives before reaching the target.
And it is unlikely that he will be able to improve his performance much ...

[svp67]

That is, theoretically stuffed with a warhead, the MiG-17 can be twice as destructive as the Russian missile system.

Well, yes ... it remains only to practically fly and get there. The MiG-17, in terms of its dimensions, is a much larger target than the OTRK Iskander missiles, and it won’t be able to maneuver like that ...

[DenVB]

They would not make kamikazes, but bomber drones. Flying to the right place, dropping a bomb, flying back and landing on the runway - this is not such high technology. He won't come back, to hell with him. We could do the same if our old MiGs and Sushki had not been cut into non-ferrous metals and precious metals.

[Ezekiel 25-17]

Too noticeable and let's say this: not a very difficult target for air defense on the European theater of operations. This is me wanting to buy. It will be difficult to apply.

[larsikkot]

I don’t agree, any air defense can be overcome, there is such a thing as a glut of targets. this is when the division on duty can fire a salvo of 36 missiles and 100 missiles fly. and this is the guaranteed destruction of both the air defense itself and the city that it covers ..

[isv000]

Quote from larsikkot

I don’t agree, any air defense can be overcome, there is such a thing as a glut of targets. this is when the division on duty can fire a salvo of 36 missiles and 100 missiles fly. and this is the guaranteed destruction of both the air defense itself and the city that it covers ..

This is if the division. And if a group of divisions, covered by a separate division? And the regiment dispersed in the vicinity of the city? And you wrote off the duty air defense aviation ?! Sit down, two!

[larsikkot]

It's reasonable - it makes sense to store them if it is possible to convert them into attack missiles ... I can imagine the damage if 400 pieces are launched at the enemy with 1 ton warheads .. It's a pity ours don't do the same ..

[isv000]

The economic man turned out to be Kim! Everything is put into action. Still, the builders would have trained with us, on the outskirts ...