SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Air Force began a training program Wednesday for Polish pilots to operate the country’s FA-50 light attack aircraft, officials said, after Warsaw signed a contract last year to purchase the jet. The program got under way at the 1st Fighter Wing in Gwangju, 329 kilometers south of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Air Force staged aerial refueling drills, involving F-35A stealth fighters, on Tuesday, a day after North Korea fired two rockets, which it claimed can be mobilized to “destroy an enemy operational airfield.” The armed service deployed a KC-330 refueling tanker and an unspecified number of F-35A jets [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The fourth prototype of South Korea’s homegrown fighter KF-21 Boramae conducted its successful maiden flight Monday, the arms procurement agency said, in the latest sign of progress in the advanced jet’s development project. The two-seat prototype took off from the Air Force’s 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, about [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A former U.S. Navy Top Gun and a Korean War veteran has received a medal from the South Korean government. The South Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles last week conferred an Apostle of Peace Medal on retired U.S. Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams. Deputy Consul General Kwon Song-hwan [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States staged combined air drills, involving U.S. B-1B strategic bombers, on Sunday, Seoul’s military said, as North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile the previous day. During the drills, F-35A stealth fighters and F-15K jets from the South flew together with U.S. F-16 fighters [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States will stage a combined military exercise at the Pentagon next week under the scenario of nuclear use by North Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry said Friday. Led by the allies’ Deterrence Strategy Committee, the discussion-based table-top exercise (TTX) is set to take place Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry has referred to the North Korean regime and military as an “enemy” in its new white paper, for the first time in six years, according to officials Thursday, apparently in consideration of the North’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. In the 2022 Defense White Paper, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Air Force’s aerobatic flight team departed Wednesday for Australia to join an international air show set to begin late this month, the armed service said. The team left an air base in Wonju, 130 kilometers east of Seoul, to participate in the biennial Australian International Airshow [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s veterans ministry said Monday it will launch a project to restore black and white photos of Korean and U.N. veterans who served in the 1950-53 Korean War to high-resolution color photos. The project is part of efforts to memorialize the appearance of their younger days by restoring [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged combined counter-drone drills at a U.S. air base in a southwestern city last week, U.S. military photos showed Sunday, as Seoul seeks to reinforce readiness following North Korea’s drone incursions late last year. Posted on the Pentagon’s Defense Visual Information Distribution Service [...]