SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A homegrown KF-21 fighter prototype achieved supersonic speeds in a test flight Tuesday, South Korea’s state arms procurement agency said, in a key milestone for the high-profile warplane development project. The first KF-21 prototype reached the speed of Mach 1, or 1,224 kilometers per hour, at an altitude of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s advanced Army unit armed with cutting-edge weapons has staged a joint field exercise with a Stryker Brigade Combat Team from the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division near the inter-Korean border. The practice kicked off on Jan. 2 for a two-week run in the border city of Paju, about [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to start fielding an advanced command post armored vehicle in Army units later this year, officials said Monday, in a move to accelerate a high-tech program to build a stronger and smarter armed service. The wheeled vehicle will first be deployed to the Army TIGER brigade, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The third prototype of South Korea’s homegrown fighter KF-21 Boramae conducted its successful maiden flight Thursday, the arms procurement agency said, signaling progress in the country’s high-profile jet development project. The jet took off from the Air Force’s 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, about 300 kilometers south of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Navy conducted its first live-fire drills of the year earlier this week, officials said Thursday, in a major display of naval might against evolving North Korean threats. Designed to check the Navy’s combat readiness, the annual drills took place in waters off the country’s eastern, western and [...]
POHANG, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Marine Corps opened 2023 with vigorous training to strengthen their capability of mission completion and combat readiness. The 1st Marine Division on Monday performed a variety of training exercises around its stronghold in the southeastern city of Pohang despite the cold weather. Amid freezing sea wind and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry said Monday that last week’s successful flight test of a homegrown solid-propellant space vehicle reflects progress in the country’s quest to secure “independent” space security capabilities. The state-run Agency for Defense Development (ADD) conducted the experiment, involving the engine combustion tests of the second-, third- [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully conducted a test flight of a solid-fuel space launch vehicle on Friday, the defense ministry said, nine months after its first test of the homegrown rocket. The state-run Agency for Defense Development (ADD) carried out the test as part of efforts to strengthen “independent” space-based reconnaissance [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military deployed fighter jets in recent days in response to radar sightings of unidentified objects wrongly assumed to be drones from North Korea. On Wednesday morning, an unknown object was detected by radar, with the military scrambling fighter jets on standby to Incheon and northern Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Navy decommissioned eight warships Friday after more than three decades of service for maritime defense, its officials said, highlighting a plan to replace them with more advanced vessels. The armed service held decommissioning ceremonies in naval bases in Jinhae, 312 kilometers southeast of Seoul, and Pyeongtaek, [...]