2024 North Korea imagery: "civilian" Ilyushin IL-76 transporter may be converted to AWACS flying radar at Pyongyang...

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Figure 1. Overview of Sunan International Airport maintenance area. Image Pleiades NEO
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Figure 2. Close up of IL-76 undergoing maintenance inside fenced-off area on July 15, 2024. Image Pleiades NEO


The aircraft is one of three IL-76s carrying Air Koryo markings
that has been based at Sunan Airport.

Around October last year, it was moved to the maintenance area of the airport, and within days, a barrier was erected around it.

Commercial satellite imagery indicates work to apparently convert
an Air Koryo Ilyushin IL-76
into an airborne early warning platform is ongoing at Pyongyang’s main international airport.