What if North Korea indigenous aircraft

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These days reading about the new mutual military assistance pact, many indicate that Russia could provide various models of combat aircraft, some indicated SU-30, some indicated SU-35 and even the SU-57, others proposed and as a hypothesis Mig-29SMT / Mig-35 (also as an assembly kit) to try to camouflage the supply wanting to maintain a semblance of compliance with UN sanctions.
I also expressed my ideas on this in other forums adding that even some SU-27 could take the route of the DPRK facilitated by the fact that this aircraft was inherited, exported to many countries and also produced under license, therefore it would be difficult to identify 100% from whom the DPRK receives them.
But then In these days I also thought about this satellite image,
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many hypotheses have been made about this unidentified aircraft, here and in other forums. I also tried to interpret that satellite photo with a drawing, I remember that some indicated a similarity to the Mig-29, but as you can see it has smaller dimensions if compared to the Mig product.

But in any case the Mig-29 idea could be the starting point for this hypothetical project, the North Koreans know it very well, they have assembled it in the past (perhaps they still do it at a low production rate), they have the ability to provide for its maintenance, overhaul and upgrade, so the question to ask is:
Is it possible that starting from the knowledge gained with the Mig-29 they are extrapolating a new project for a light single-engine combat aircraft made in DPRK?
In this case they could receive significant technical help in design and components from Russia without exposing Moscow to accusations of evading UN sanctions.

I had fun copying and pasting my hypothesis
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In the same satellite photo, other aircraft are also indicated as SU-25 with modifications to the wingtips, others indicate a local version of the same SU-25, still others a similarity with the L-39 Albatros trainer but with larger dimensions.
Certainly for a nation that does not have much experience in designing and manufacturing a military aircraft, the option with a lower risk is to start by making a jet trainer and use the engines at their disposal or that they have learned to produce locally.
A pictorial image of the single-engine trainer aircraft he claimed he is designing called MiG-UTS simplified successor to the Mig-AT, bears a resemblance to the L-39 Albatros and those in the satellite photo,
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so someone could speculate that the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau could have contributed at a technical/design level to the realization of this North Korean aircraft, without forgetting that the Russian aircraft industry could provide support with components and possibly the engine with direct supplies or provide the knowledge to then produce in the DPRK.
In the absence of official news or live photos this remains one of the many hypotheses of mine.

:cool: My "North Korean" version with some modifications to the air intakes for the Mig-UTS engine
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The idea of involving Mikoyan's design office is not at all misguided.
Since the beginning of the millennium, there has been a huge will to implement, for example, the E-721 project and its relatives. First in the PAK FA program, then in India and now for the possible future aircraft carriers of the Russian Navy, the realization of which is very unlikely. Projects are continuously being worked on and all technologies are available (partly from the MiG-35 program).
In the same way, Klimov (as Vatagin said several times) does not want to give up the intention of further development of the RD-33 series (now in the form of RD-33MKM/RD-93MA).
Of course, everything is much, much more complicated, but development is gaining momentum and everything can still be very interesting.
 

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