captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

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.

P-s-s-s-t…hey, meester, you want nice MANPAD? Very clean, 3rd generation tech. Maybe you like SANT ATGW from Inida, i get for you very cheap, my brother-in-law, he work in factory.

You probably won’t find Arms ‘R Us in P/NG, it’s more of a transport hub for stuff that’s been ordered and probably already paid for.

Hehe, let me guess its condition: “been dropped once. never been fired”?

:)