Article from ‘NK Insight’ of 10 April 2025
Title:
"Significant Support from Russia needed for new N.K Naval Combatant Construction."
Reading the article, the author seems to build it around the idea that the new frigate has already been created and will be completed with Russia's indispensable and inevitable help.
Russia's help is possible, but many so-called experts persist in making the big mistake of underestimating North Korea.
From the document above, a satellite photo of the frigate showing another part of the ship
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At the bow there are photos, so the configuration should already be clear, from this satellite image I start making assumptions
Green : command superstructure;
Brown : smoke exhaust chimneys;
White : elevated superstructure for radar electronic systems ;
Orange : other mast for electronic/radar systems ;
Magenta: assumption 1) opening for installing gas turbines- or - 2) space for VLS
Yellow: hangar for helicopters or drones (14 metres long and 11 metres wide (KA-27/28ASW(*) with folded blades is 3.8 m wide, 12.25 m long, maximum height 5.4 m)
on the sides with lower superstructure possibility to install CIWS
Light blue: flight deck (+/- metres 22x the width of the ship)
Amber: Extreme aft end of ship lower than flight deck
(*) North Korea has in the past received at least two KA-28 ASWs from Cuba (export version of the KA-27ASW) it is not known if they are operational today, however they are present in the country
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