Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
North Korea: Unlicensed copy of the FN Browning M1900. Can be fitted with a suppressor. [1] [2]: A-72 Issued to high-ranking officers and spies. [3] Makarov PM Soviet Union [2]: A-74 Type 70 North Korea: Self-designed and produced; Modeled after the FN M1910, Makarov PM, and the Walther PPK; chambered in .32 ACP. Issued to high-ranking officers.
The annual report of North Korea's military capabilities by the U.S. Department of Defense, released in early 2014, identified the North Korean Army's strength at 950,000 personnel, 4,200 tanks, 2,200 armored vehicles, 8,600 artillery guns, and over 4,800 multiple rocket launchers. [14]
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, [21] to long-range SA-5 Gammon and Pon'gae-5 SAM systems and large-calibre AA artillery guns. [22] [23] North Korea has one of the densest air defence networks ...
This page was last edited on 20 February 2020, at 21:32 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
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 Soviet and Chinese built military hardware.
North Korea also received and built T62M tanks [26] (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 ...
North Korea's relative isolation and economic plight starting from the 1980s has now tipped the balance of military power into the hands of the better-equipped South Korean military. [34] In response to this predicament, North Korea relies on asymmetric warfare techniques and unconventional weaponry to achieve parity against high-tech enemy ...
78 North Korea. 79 Norway. 80 Palestine. 81 Pakistan. ... The following is a list of lists of currently active military equipment by country. ... Sri Lanka Air Force ...