North Korea Fighter Pilot Training Video

[Nicholas Bell]

http://imgur.com/rEyWQCq

[RUSTYMORLEY]

You know with that nutcase North Korean regime I can actually believe that video. Just demonstrates how stupid they are and so far away from reality. If I am correct they are so isolated from the real world to such an extent that the general population (apart from the military elite) don't even know how to access the internet. !!!

[Nesher]

is this real? what the heck?

[dannavy85]

I remember back in 1995 when the Korean nuclear scare was at its height and I was with MALS 12 in Iwakuni, Japan that we were briefed on the "just in case" scenario should the North decide to commit national suicide and invade the South, and it would be suicide given the disparity in technology. North Korean pilots barely scratch half a day's worth of training per year.

 

A war with the North would be so one sided that unless we were grieviously incompetant...the domination would be a joke.

[Boresight]

One doesn't know if should laugh or cry... from so much laughing.

 

It's sad when a country and society, has no development whatsoever; no common sense; and... no money.

 

Even these guys from LONG ago, had more realistic fighter pilot training...  

 

 

[logan4]

Actually nothing bad about it. Any and all AF uses AC models on sticks to imitate different maneuvers - yes, even yours - on training, debriefings or even pre-flights and no one makes ridicule of them. The Russian Knights and Swifts also make ground training and when they put on a spectacular display no one cares what different ways they did drill for it, the spectators just enjoy the show.

And if you think it over it saves gas before a rookie busts your tail as got too close to you on its first 2 ship flight. Sure would be better in a simulator set up, but even this way has benefits.

[Boresight]

Actually nothing bad about it. Any and all AF uses AC models on sticks to imitate different maneuvers - yes, even yours - on training, debriefings or even pre-flights and no one makes ridicule of them. The Russian Knights and Swifts also make ground training and when they put on a spectacular display no one cares what different ways they did drill for it, the spectators just enjoy the show.

And if you think it over it saves gas before a rookie busts your tail as got too close to you on its first 2 ship flight. Sure would be better in a simulator set up, but even this way has benefits.

 

Hello logan4,

 

That I know, I've seen it many times already.

The part about no common sense and development was related to the NK government.

 

I just couldn't help not to find comical, (even their "leader" was laughing) seeing two guys running in squatting position side by side, and one of them carrying some cockpit front panel cardboard while "sighting" the other. 

 

I think what might be implied here, is that they might not have the means ( $$$ ) to do much more than these less expensive forms of training in the long run.

Edited May 6, 2016 by Boresight

[Stratos]

What I find curious and a bit impressive is that hose NK pilots with so little training can control a fighter jet, some so unforgiving as a MiG-21.

[logan4]

Boresight, I did not addressed only you, but the whole, as most made ridicule not even thinking how their own train apart the high tech, plenty of dough components.

 

Yes, gas availability could be a factor for strange things. For example our AF pilots had to spend more hours in L39s than in Mig-s just to have enough flight hours on a yearly level in late 90-s and early 2k-s as the relative costs were much lower than for the 21/29 series.

 

Just with an analogy. On over all I would not take conclusions of a whole 2hr movie just by seeing 5 seconds from it.  As for capability many people nowdays could laugh on the under dressed state of bushman or tribes living in the jungle and the level of weapons they use. Yet would be frantic to try to stay alive when a poisonous dart or arrow just scratch them. 

 

Sure when little Kim feels time has come, it will be a short and devastating war for NK, but I would not underestimate any enemy. A stray bullet is a stray bullet and even if a person not want to be in its way it will find someone eventually.

[RUSTYMORLEY]

 

Sure when little Kim feels time has come, it will be a short and devastating war for NK, but I would not underestimate any enemy. A stray bullet is a stray bullet and even if a person not want to be in its way it will find someone eventually.

 

I hope that their nuclear weapons programme is just as fake as their combat flight training, if little Kim decides that the hour has come - god alone only knows what will happen if the nukes are real. We are all going to get dragged in.

[Toryu]

 

What I find curious and a bit impressive is that hose NK pilots with so little training can control a fighter jet, some so unforgiving as a MiG-21.

 

 

The nice thing about being a dictatorship is that there's no press to dig up and wonder about scary crash-rates in your air force.

[xrearl]

I don't think China will let, Nk start any thing.