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sahureka said:

a technical question about an elderly fighter still used in North Korea :

MiG-17 or shenyang J-5A of North Korea Air Force, I noticed that it has 4 hard points for bombs connected to the fuselage

from the minute 2:26

2 hard points for fuselage bombs I've already seen them on the Egyptian Mig-17

but have never seen 4 , this could be a change made in DPRK ?

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

Mig 15's have been in North Korea Service for sometime. In 1953 Kenneth H. Rowe then No Kum-sok a Lt. in the North Korean Airforce defected from North Korea to the South and US taking with him This Mig. It was Trialed by Chuck Yeager where it was discovered not to be super sonic.
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TerraN_EmpirE said:

First 806 is not a Mig 17, It's a Mig 15.
We can tell this because of the Nose number red 806 the same as this photo

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Now if you look on the Wing we see 2 fences that's Mig 15 Chinese Production J2
Mig 15 has 3 fences on the wing.
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I am not sure what those are but I doubt weapons perhaps an updated radio. If you look at this side photo It seems those structures vanish. Weapons on both the Mig 15 and Mig 17 are wing mounted except for the Cannons. This is due to the low ground clearance of the gear and Fuselage vs the ground and the Air Breaks.

This image makes it clear they are very thin

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sahureka said:

other photos of Mig-15 or 17 with hard points for bombs connected to the fuselage, it makes me think that North Koreans have implemented this additional capacity on the majority of this old model of aircraft

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