SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean T-50B supersonic jets streaked over a southeastern Australian city during the opening ceremony of a major international air show Tuesday, marking its first aerobatic performance in the southern hemisphere. The Korean Air Force’s Black Eagles team joined the biennial Australian International Airshow and Aerospace [...]
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. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States on Friday staged combined air drills, involving U.S. F-22 and F-35B stealth fighters, in a show of America’s “invariable will and capability” to keep its security commitment to the Asian ally, the South Korean Air Force said. The allies conducted the drills over [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Air Forces of South Korea, the United States and three other countries have kicked off an annual U.S.-led humanitarian operation to deliver medicine and other basic necessities to remote Pacific islands ahead of the Christmas season, officials here said Monday. Hosted by the U.S. Pacific Air Forces, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Air Force said Tuesday it will participate in a U.S.-led multinational humanitarian operation in Guam, an effort to enhance its airlift and other operational capabilities. It sent a C-130 transport plane and around 30 service members to Operation Christmas Drop, an annual event that the U.S. Pacific [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An Air Force brigadier general has been demoted by one rank to colonel for mishandling a sexual assault case that led to the suicide death of a female soldier, military sources said Saturday. Jeon Ik-soo, the chief legal affairs officer of the Air Force, became the first general officer [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers staged joint drills with South Korean F-35A stealth fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the last day of the allies’ Vigilant Storm exercise, according to Seoul’s defense authorities. It marked the first time that the long-range supersonic bomber has been deployed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States will hold major combined air drills, involving some 240 military aircraft, next week to verify the allies’ wartime operational capabilities, the Air Force here said Friday, amid growing North Korean security threats. The five-day Vigilant Storm exercise is set to begin Monday, as [...]
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, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have been conducting their first combined air drills here involving their respective F-35A stealth fighters, Seoul officials said Thursday, in an apparent show of force against North Korea’s evolving military threats. The four-day drills kicked off Monday amid lingering concerns that Pyongyang could [...]