North Korea's New Secret Weapon

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looks like he's been doing some sit ups.
 
That camo pattern is GENIUS! Man, those guys are slick.

...and Sendero, I really dig your avatar -- I'm wearing my moon right now! :)
 
If your aircraft is small enough you can publicly talk about infiltrating the most sophisticated air defense system ever implemented then easily go do it.:D
 
ClimbnSink said:
If your aircraft is small enough you can publicly talk about infiltrating the most sophisticated air defense system ever implemented then easily go do it.:D
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Yeah, right! Do you hear this guy?! When has that ever happ... Ah, dammit!

/s
 
Okay call me stupid but how can it be a "secret" weapon when it's been on BBC and we're sitting here talking about it? :dunno:

BTW has anyone else endured the full length and breadth of "The Interview"?
 
Silvaire said:
Okay call me stupid but how can it be a "secret" weapon when it's been on BBC and we're sitting here talking about it? :dunno:

BTW has anyone else endured the full length and breadth of "The Interview"?
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I did. It was corny, bad, and directed at a young audience. But funny enough. I expect it will have a bit, a very small, cult following.
 
Is that a Gyrocopter?
 
Is BBC serious?

Must have been one of those equal opertunity employers, maybe a developmental challenged reporter wrote that article lol
 
Who did the weight and balance?
 
No need to worry about an ejection seat... They don't have powerful enough rockets.
 
Despite their great age - the An-2 dates back to 1947 - the aircraft is seen as an ideal low-tech stealth aircraft for short-range infiltration raids. They can fly at low altitudes below radar systems, delivering a dozen troops to a target area.
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With the BBC breaking the story about this versatile weapons system, it's just a matter of time before someone in the Royal Air Force realizes that Great Britain has a similar platform in the Fairey Swordfish.

It'll be hushed up, but the RAF will probably begin clandestine testing of the Stringbag at the squadron level sometime soon.

:rofl: :rofl:
 
You laugh, but an AN-2 is a capable heavy lifter. It wouldn't surprise me if it could deliver a N. Korean nuke. Depending on the weight of the of the bomb it may be able to carry the fuel to make Seattle or SF.
 
The possibility an An-2 could perform as a nuclear weapons delivery system has about about the same chance as a Cessna 172 does.

The slight problem with your claim the An-2 can deliver a bomb is that the assumed weight of just the weapon, 10,000 lbs, exceeds the published loaded weight of the An-2. Since it's doubtful the North Koreans have succeeded in miniaturizing their bomb to the extent the Western nations have, it is widely assumed the device is the approximate size and weight of WWII era bombs, with a similar yield of 12-15 kilotons.

Then there's the problem of fuel, crew, etc. I know, since you're Henning, it's just details you can easily overcome. A TPE-331 could be installed in place of the 9 cylinder radial. But that actually won't help at all.*

Crew: 1–2
Capacity: 12 passengers
Length: 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: ** Upper wing: 18.2 m (59 ft 8 in)
Lower wing: 14.2 m (46 ft 9 in))
Height: 4.1 m (13 ft)
Wing area: 71.52 m² (769.8 ft²)
Empty weight: 3,300 kg (7,300 lb)
Loaded weight: 5,440 kg (12,000 lb)
Useful load: 2,140 kg (4,700 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Shvetsov ASh-62IR 9-cylinder supercharged radial engine, 750 kW (1,000 hp)

Since it's about 4,500 miles from Pyongyang the Seattle, that presents another small problem.


*Russia has pursued its own An-2 turboprop modification. The Chaplygin Aeronautical Research Institute in Novosibirsk (SibNIA) fitted a Honeywell TPE331 turboprop and a Hartzell five-bladed propeller to an An-2 and successfully flew it "for around 40 hours", the institute's director, Vladimir Barsuk, said in August 2012.

SibNIA claimed a significant improvement in take-off and landing performance and overall handling, as well as a reduction in empty weight.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/antonov-flies-turboprop-powered-an-2-100-389083/
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Henning said:
You laugh, but an AN-2 is a capable heavy lifter. It wouldn't surprise me if it could deliver a N. Korean nuke. Depending on the weight of the of the bomb it may be able to carry the fuel to make Seattle or SF.
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A friend brought one out here from the midwest. If you can get it up to 100 mph it burns one gallon of avgas per minute. So to fly 7,000 miles to Seattle, even with a tailwind would require about 25,000 pounds of fuel and that's with no reserves.

Not saying they aren't considering it though....:rolleyes:
 
Silvaire said:
A friend brought one out here from the midwest. If you can get it up to 100 mph it burns one gallon of avgas per minute. So to fly 7,000 miles to Seattle, even with a tailwind would require about 25,000 pounds of fuel and that's with no reserves.

Not saying they aren't considering it though....:rolleyes:
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Henning can make it work. He called me a ****ing idiot in another thread, yet he's the one that thinks a Cold War era biplane can carry 12 1/2 tons of fuel and a nuke from North Korea to the US and bomb Seattle.
 
Silvaire said:
A friend brought one out here from the midwest. If you can get it up to 100 mph it burns one gallon of avgas per minute. So to fly 7,000 miles to Seattle, even with a tailwind would require about 25,000 pounds of fuel and that's with no reserves.

Not saying they aren't considering it though....:rolleyes:
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That's what makes it genius. No one would ever expect it.
 
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