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North Korea: Produced locally as the Type 62. [3] Type 64 [21] Soviet Union North Korea: North Korean copy of the RPK machine gun, produced under license. [5] RPK-74 Soviet Union [2]: A-82 Type 73 North Korea: Indigenous design based on the ZB vz. 26 and the Kalashnikov PK machine gun design. [3] Gun-2 Minigun North Korea
K532 K533 K534. Sweden South Korea. Mortar carrier Electronic warfare Signals vehicle. ≈500 [ 43 ] Kia Motors. The Hagglunds BV206 was built in Korea under license by Kia Motors. [ 43 ] The RoK Army operates 9,096 civil vehicles ranging from sedans to buses, forklifts, excavators, and graders.
North Korea operates a wide variety of air defense equipment, from short-range MANPADS such as 9K34 Strela-3, 9K38 Igla and ZPU-4 heavy machine guns, high-altitude upgraded S-75 Dvina, [22] to long-range SA-5 Gammon and Pon'gae-5 SAM systems and large-calibre AA artillery guns. [20] [23] North Korea has one of the densest air defence networks ...
Contents. Defense industry of North Korea. North Korea's defence industry predates the Korean War, but has emerged as a major supplier to the North Korean armed forces beginning in the 1970s, [ 1 ] but increasingly so after the fall of the Soviet Union and to supplement those purchased from China. [ 1 ] Most equipment produced are copies of ...
The Korean People's Army Ground Force was formed on August 20, 1947. It outnumbered and outgunned the South Korean army on the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 before being pushed back by a combined United Nations-Republic of Korea counteroffensive. North Korean ground forces formations which fought in the Korean War included the I Corps ...
North Korea sells missiles and military equipment to many countries worldwide. [34] In April 2009, the United Nations named the Korea Mining and Development Trading Corporation (KOMID) as North Korea's primary arms dealer and main exporter of equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons.
North Korea also received and built T62M tanks [25] (Ob'yekt 166M) which is an extensive modernization of the T-62 with protection and mobility improvements and the "Volna" fire control system. It is fitted with a BDD appliqué armour package, an additional belly armour plate for anti-mine protection, 10 mm thick reinforced rubber side skirts ...
The Cheonma-2s (along with other paraded weapons) are also seen as North Korea's efforts to modernize its military. [ 7 ] [ 19 ] [ 23 ] In an interview with Professor Sung Woo, the head of the Department of Military Drones at Shinhan University and a former policy advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (South Korea) , he stated the Cheonma-2 is a ...