A Polish built CSS-13, msn 0094. Displaying at Old Warden. 02-10-2011 (Wikipedia)
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Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: In 1953, North Korea Used 1920-Style Planes to Fight America. They Did a Lot of Damage.
On the night of June 16, 1953, the Associated Press reported on “a boiling mass of flame, mushrooming like an atomic bomb, shoots skyward from a burning fuel dump, set afire at the South Korean port city of Inchon.” The fire “lighted the sky for more than 20 miles” and took three days to put out, having consumed 5.5 million gallons of fuel.
The perpetrators of this devastating attack? A flight of four pokey North Korean two-seat trainers flying blindly through the night.
The Marines, Navy and Air Force fielded their most advanced radar-equipped jet fighters to intercept these low-tech night raiders—but soon also had to contend with deadly MiG-15 jet fighters stalking the night skies over Korea.
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WNU Editor: You go to war with what you have .... and the North Koreans used what they had in 1953.
When I was stationed in the ROK as a US Air Force Security Policeman we would train against possible landings from NorK AN-2's landing on our runway and aircraft parking areas.
ReplyDeleteThe Soviets were very very involved in the Korean War, though that was never really made public, and the Chinese used the so -called burp gun, a version of AR15 ...and what we were fairly certain of was that a number of Soviet MIGs were actually manned by Russians...for a full account of Soviet involvement, GO HERE
ReplyDeleteforgot to mention...among that supplied to the Chinese, to be used in the war, was this
ReplyDeleteThe Burp Gun Was Ugly—But Damn Did It Spray Lead
Soviets mass-produced PPSh-41s out of sheer desperation
I managed somehow to get hold of one of those, an early version of the now famous or infamous AR-!5