party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

Michael V said:

Hmmmmm.

A good question.

TBH, it’s not much of a question.

P/NG is a major crossroads for illicit arms and ammunition shipments around the Pacific/SE Asia region.

Long coastlines, small and ill-equipped enforcement agencies, and endemic corruption make it easy to ‘do business’ through P/NG.

A good number of cargo charter flights carrying such tings, including Russian-made (and often Russian-operated) Antonov 224 transports pass through P/NG. Even the now-destroyed An-225 made at least one such flight.

Other shipments arrive by sea, are unload, then re-loaded for onwards transport.

It’s all done very quietly, and this will bring unwanted attention.

But, it’ll probably continue.

updates notes “PNG is a good place to buy arms on the sly”

That may come in handy later. Thanks.

Yep.
I nearly bought an M-16 when I was flying there. But I decided it was probably a bad idea.