SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean defense firms have signed contracts — worth US$5.76 billion in total — with Poland to implement last month’s deals to export K2 battle tanks and K9 self-propelled howitzers, Seoul’s arms procurement agency said Saturday. Hyundai Rotem Co. and Hanwha Defense inked the executive contracts with Warsaw’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States began a regular combined military exercise Monday, reviving large-scale field training suspended four years ago as the allies push to bolster defense against evolving North Korean nuclear and missile threats. The Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise is set to run through Sept. 1, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Air Force said Thursday it will participate in a multinational exercise, hosted by Australia, to open late this month as part of efforts to bolster deterrence against evolving North Korean threats. A squadron of KF-16 fighters is set to depart from an air base in Chungju, 147 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean defense companies are making forays into the development of military robots as their new growth engine. Hyundai Rotem Co., a train and defense company, has launched a drive to develop a multi-legged counter-terrorism robot that is expected to be commercialized by 2024. With four legs, the robot [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s arms procurement agency on Wednesday signed deals with two local firms to develop a counterterrorism robot and a reconnaissance drone, its officials said, as the country seeks to harness new technologies for its military buildup. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said that it inked a 4.6 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military is exploring ways to prevent accidents in Han River estuary areas caused by land mines floated from North Korea, or the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) plans to detect the areas of concern with high potential to be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Wih China staging live-fire military drills around Taiwan on Thursday in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, South Korean airlines are facing an operational setback. Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s national flag carrier operating direct flights to Taiwan five times a week, has [...]
CAIRO/SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of the South Korean Air Force’s T-50B jets streaked over Egyptian pyramids during an air show earlier this week, in the first such performance by a foreign military around the African nation’s ancient structures. The South’s Black Eagles aerobatic team staged the joint flyby with the Egyptian [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea appears to be turning to a tried-and-true deterrence playbook marked by its arms buildup, a threat of “unsparing” punishment and scaled-up military drills as it faces evolving North Korean security challenges, analysts said Wednesday. That playbook revolves around three Cs: military capabilities, communication to a recalcitrant North [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States plan to conduct an array of drills, including repelling attacks and mounting counterattacks, as part of their major combined training set to kick off later this month, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday. In a written parliamentary briefing, the ministry said the Ulchi Freedom [...]