ROK Air Force Scrambles 30 Fighters in Response to North Korean Warplanes
I wonder if the North Korean Air Force used up their entire yearly training budget on this flight:
Twelve North Korean military aircraft flew in formation and presumably conducted a firing exercise Thursday, Seoul officials said, in apparent protest over recent military drills between South Korea and the United States.
The group of eight fighter jets and four bombers staged the formation flight north of the inter-Korean air boundary at around 2 p.m., and they were thought to have conducted air-to-surface firing drills, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
Some 30 South Korean fighter jets were immediately deployed to the area in an “overwhelming” response to the flight, which is a move unseen over the past year, the JCS said.
Yonhap
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At least those ancient Soviet era North Korean jets fly. Unlike the outrageously expensive but useless F35s which cannot even fly.
https://theaviationist.com/2022/10/05/south-koreas-f-35as-grounded-by-malfunctions-172-times-over-18-months/
Could easily be that was all that they had spare parts to make airworthy