Comments on: North Korean Airfields

By: Mr Gronk

Mr Gronk — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:24:30 +0000

In the case of Kaechon, I reckon the planes parked near the runway are MIG21s (there’s the shadow of one flying over the runway further up). The planes parked further south off the small road are MIG19s.

I will now go out and get a real life …

By: Imagez

Imagez — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:16 +0000

Actually DDA, the Germans AND the U.S. used that strategy with cardboard cutouts during World War II. It is actually an effective strategy. Because the person who is looking at the imagery, which is never that great of a quality, doesn’t know what to make of the shadow, so they assume that the camoflauge on the plane is the reason why they can’t see the plane. It works.

By: Frank Reid

Frank Reid — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:18:22 +0000

Those are AN-2s. If you look south of the airfield, you can find some AN-2s letting some Special Operations Forces out the door (numerous parachutes).

By: DJ Swammi

DJ Swammi — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:34:55 +0000

If you want to see what AN-2s look like from above in a clearer shot, check out this airstrip in Hungary…

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

You can see to lower wing on the planes on the left, but not the one on the right.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:50:24 +0000

What’s hidden? Maybe weapons of mass destruction, but real ones this time…

By: DDA

DDA — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:08:11 +0000

“Fake shaddows used to confuse enemy reconnaisance” ???

Thats the funniest camouflage ever. Totally useless, vain and ineffective. (Except few minutes a day, and you need a sunny day)
Why can’t we just see military airplanes like on the US airfields. Do you suspect US to use evil stratagems for paranoids ? No, most of time, and in North Korea too, airplanes are airplanes. Sorry to disappoint you.

By: Karnack

Karnack — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:03:12 +0000

While North Korea does, in fact currently fly AN-2 aircraft as troop transports, some of these are probably not the AN-2 biplane given the shadows. However, having said that, its very difficult to tell from this resolution, and some do appear to have the vague shape of the flightly forward lower wing.

Also, at the Kaechon airfield I suspect several of those concentrations of planes to be nothing more than fake shaddows used to confuse enemy reconnaisance. Those that are real are almost certainly Mig-19s but I believe it would be more likely that they would keep at least some of the active aircraft scattere ind the revetments pictured to the east and southeast of the runway and not tightly lined up along the runway. Thus I supposed that at least some of what looks like airplanes in a row on the apron are probably nothing more than big sheets of black material or black paint that LOOK like the shadow of Mig-19s.

By: robert

robert — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:12:04 +0000

Everyone get under the table. The biplanes are coming!

By: DDA

DDA — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:30:01 +0000

Biplanes ? Or just wings and shadows ? If you see biplanes where are the shadow ?