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Originally posted by S-2 View Post"Can't see how any DPRK tanks could venture far without controlling the air."
Won't happen.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Originally posted by TopHatter View PostYeah, unlike the Iraqi Air Force in 1991, the DPRK air force would stand and fight and then die by the truckload.
The Norks aren't stupid enough to present that kind of a target after studying Iraq 91.The best part of repentance is the sin
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostEhh, no, most won't get off the ground - no fuel.
Didn't the Great Leader and his capable son ever think about putting something away for a rainy day? (as in, it's just raining PGM's out there!)
Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostAnd those that do would be missile magnets, no training time.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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"The Norks aren't stupid enough to present that kind of a target after studying Iraq 91."
We're discussing the North Korean airforce. That airforce will rise, fight and die...as sure as the sun rises in the east.
OTOH, if you wish to expand this argument, NKPA armor will stand out like a sore thumb when you consider carefully the constricted, channelized nature of the terrain leading south along with all that's been done by the S. Koreans to accentuate that channelization.
Or, alternatively, the NKPA simply don't attack with armor. That won't happen either."This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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While clowning around and generally displaying some serious TGIF behavior instead of working this morning, I came across this rather interesting publication which contains an article about the M2002 MBT. I was unable to open www.kpajournal.com but that isn't unusual considering where I live.
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/nk-upload...vol-1-no-4.pdf
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Originally posted by chakos View PostIts a generation older (albeit with modifications), it doesn't have the hardkill/softkill options for dealing with ATGMs, it also doesn't have the same level of advanced fire control. Armor is probably on par but neither you nor I would know for certain and it lacks a lot of the extras (the K2 PIP will even have radar to scan the road ahead and make the best suspension choices automatically based on terrain).
The only benefit of the 2E is that you could probably buy 2 for the same price as 1 K2. Although as i said, if money was no option...
The K2 is basically what the M1A3 should be sans the DU armor.
K2 Tank Production Suffers Budget CutJ'ai en marre.
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Originally posted by 1979 View PostBecause one is a operational vehicle and the other a technology demonstrator, who's bugs have not bean solved yet.
K2 Tank Production Suffers Budget CutThe best part of repentance is the sin
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S. Korea Studies North's New Battle Tank
By JUNG SUNG-KI
Published: 17 Aug 2010 14:56
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SEOUL - South Korean military and intelligence authorities are scrutinizing the performances of North Korea's latest main battle tank, believed to be the latest modification of the Soviet-built T-62, officials here said Aug. 17.
Video footage of North Korea's Chungang TV shows the North Korean battle tank, the 'Pokpung-Ho' (Storm), which is believed to be based on the Soviet-built T-62 tank. (Agence France-Presse)
The North's Korean Central Television made public footage of the Pokpung-Ho (Storm) days ago. The rare release of such footage by the secretive North Koreans occurred in the tense aftermath of the March sinking of a South Korean warship near the western sea border.
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Last month, South Korean and U.S. forces flexed their muscles during massive air and naval drills off the eastern coast of the peninsula, despite Pyongyang's warning that it would respond to the war games.
"The new tank appeared to have better mobility, survivability and firepower than the existing Chonma-Ho (Pegasus), apparently," a South Korean Ministry of National Defense official said on condition of anonymity. "We're still analyzing the … tank based on the footage from Pyongyang's state television station. The release of footage of the Pokpung-Ho was quite rare, as the existence of the new tank had sometimes been regarded as a rumor."
The Pokpung-Ho also is dubbed the M-2002, as the tank is presumed to have been rolled out in 2002, he added.
The North Korean People's Army is known to operate up to 800 T-62 variants.
Beginning in the late 1970s, North Korea started to produce a modified version of the 115mm gunned T-62 tank, and since then is believed to have made considerable modifications to the basic Soviet and Chinese designs.
According to a recent analysis published by Seoul's Defense Agency for Technology and Quality, an affiliate of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, the Pokpung-Ho is believed to be armed with either a newly developed 125mm or 115mm main gun.
The improved version would be mounted with a 14.5mm KPV anti-aircraft machine gun, which is more powerful than the 12.7mm gun on older tanks, the analysis states.
Other improvements for the Pokpung-Ho include a laser rangefinder, an infrared searchlight and an up-to-date fire control system, according to the publication.
The North Korean Army is believed to have about 3,900 tanks, and only one elite mechanized unit would operate Pokpung-Hos.
The South Korean Army operates about 2,300 tanks, many of which will be replaced by the state-of-the-art K2 Black Panther main battle tank and modified K1A1 tank.
The K2, rolled out in 2007, is an amphibious tank armed with a locally developed 120mm/55-caliber stabilized smoothbore gun. Its 1,500-horsepower engine can power the tank to 70 kilometers per hour on paved roads and 50 kilometers off-road. It can cross rivers as deep as 4.1 meters.
Meanwhile, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff revealed Aug. 16 that North Korea flew an unmanned aerial vehicle for surveillance or as a decoy after it fired nearly 1,200 artillery shells toward the disputed western sea border last week.
It was the first time that a North Korean drone had been spotted over the western waters, the scene of deadly naval battles in the past decade.
"The drone flew over the North's waters, some 20 kilometers north of South Korea's Yeonpyeong islands," said Lt. Col. Won Young-sup at the JCS' public affairs office. He declined to elaborate on the specifications of the North Korean spy plane.
S. Korea Studies North's New Battle Tank - Defense News“the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all” -- Joan Robinson
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Originally posted by S-2 View Post"The Norks aren't stupid enough to present that kind of a target after studying Iraq 91."
We're discussing the North Korean airforce. That airforce will rise, fight and die...as sure as the sun rises in the east.
OTOH, if you wish to expand this argument, NKPA armor will stand out like a sore thumb when you consider carefully the constricted, channelized nature of the terrain leading south along with all that's been done by the S. Koreans to accentuate that channelization.
Or, alternatively, the NKPA simply don't attack with armor. That won't happen either.Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.
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Originally posted by Dreadnought View PostHmm, was thinking maybe after the first few kills the rest high tail it for China and save the aircraft.
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They may be worth counting for the North Koreans but i dont see the Chinese have any use for them if they hightail it North. Its a mute point anyways, as far as the air war will go, if it takes off and has a Nork roundel on it... it dies within seconds. The Fulcrums may live long enough to work out the aircraft that kills them but thats really as far as it goes.
I dont see China pressing 30yold airframes into service when its busy replacing its own Mig21 variants with J10 and J11's. If they got any Mig 29s from the Norks they might play with them fo curiosities sake but i dont see much benefit to be gleamed from them either.
The Frogfoot in my eyes would be more useful, a modern Frogfoot variant would make an excellent replacement for the Q5 so they may be interested in having a closer look at them (then again if they really wanted to, they would have already).
The best thing Nork pilots could do is to take off, try get over South Korean lines and eject... minimal chance of survival but better than refusing to take off, making a run for it, or worse, trying to mix it up with F22's.The best part of repentance is the sin
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