Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:45 am
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Anyone notice on tonight's TV news the reports of the North Korean 70th anniversary celebrations ?
Much is being made about the fact that KJ-un did not display any nukes, as he plays the diplomatic game with DT. However there was a few seconds showing a flypast which got my attention as there were a number of biplanes what appeared to be AN2's flying in formation, their outline is quite distinctive but I thought no surely not.
A quick bit of Googling reveals the the North Koreans still operate 300 of these aircraft, again my initial thought was that's a lot of very old aircraft, haven't they got anything faster?
Again courtesy of Google the AN2 was in production from 1947 until 2001 and over 18,000 were made, so 300 remaining isn't a big deal. But interesting that they chose to display this 70 year old technology in a display of their military might. More of the mind games?
Much is being made about the fact that KJ-un did not display any nukes, as he plays the diplomatic game with DT. However there was a few seconds showing a flypast which got my attention as there were a number of biplanes what appeared to be AN2's flying in formation, their outline is quite distinctive but I thought no surely not.
A quick bit of Googling reveals the the North Koreans still operate 300 of these aircraft, again my initial thought was that's a lot of very old aircraft, haven't they got anything faster?
Again courtesy of Google the AN2 was in production from 1947 until 2001 and over 18,000 were made, so 300 remaining isn't a big deal. But interesting that they chose to display this 70 year old technology in a display of their military might. More of the mind games?