{"id":156951,"date":"2024-12-12T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-north-korea-invest-russian-su-27-mig-29-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:00:15","slug":"why-is-north-korea-investing-in-russian-su-27-mig-29-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=156951","title":{"rendered":"Why Is North Korea Investing In Russian Su-27 &amp; MiG-29 Jets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to US officials, Russian compensation to             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"35699\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/north-korea\/\"  >North Korea<\/a><\/span> for supplying much-needed military aid will include early fourth-generation             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652038\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Su-27 Flanker<\/span><\/span> and             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652039\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>MiG-29 Fulcrum<\/span><\/span> fighter jets. For now, it is unclear how many will be delivered or when North Korea will receive them. It is also unclear how many service life flight hours these old jets will have (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032672\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-fighter-jets-longer-service-lives-than-soviet-counterparts\/\" >US-built fighter jets are far more durable, boasting much longer service life flight hours<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea appears set to receive old 4th-gen fighters from Russia, although it is questionable how useful these jets will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8527,412,5978,3434,8086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-mig-29-fulcrum","category-military","category-north-korea","category-russian-air-force","category-su-27-flanker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156952,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156951\/revisions\/156952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}