SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A KF-16 fighter jet crashed during takeoff from its base in the southwestern county of Seosan on Thursday, and the lone pilot safely ejected before being taken to a hospital, the Air Force said. The jet belonging to the 20th Fighter Wing went down at the base in Seosan, [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown fighter KF-21 Boramae conducted its successful test flight with the advanced active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar mounted, the arms procurement agency said Saturday, in the latest sign of progress in the advanced jet’s development project. The third prototype took off from the Air Force’s 3rd [...]
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, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Friday’s rollout of a prototype of South Korea’s first homegrown fighter jet after 20 years of hard work marks a watershed moment for the country’s history of national defense and related industries. But multiple challenges still stand in the way of its ultimate success amid partner Indonesia’s seemingly wavering [...]
SACHEON, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will showcase a prototype of the country’s first indigenous fighter jet in April, the arms procurement agency has said. Jung Kwang-sun, heading the KF-X program at the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, said the planned rollout event will be a “landmark moment” for the country and the aerospace [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Air Force has launched a naming contest for the country’s next-generation fighter jet under development, officials said Friday. South Korea is building the first prototype jet for the KF-X project after its design was confirmed last year, according to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration. Through Oct. 30, South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea began assembling a prototype of what would be the country’s first indigenously developed fighter jet Thursday in a landmark step that means the ambitious project is materializing, the arms procurement agency said. Under the KF-X project worth 8.8 trillion won (US$7.3 billion), South Korea has been working [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Republic of Korea Air Force announced Monday that it had completed upgrading its F-16 fighter jets, equipping them with AIM-120 mid-range air-to-air missiles and GBU-31JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) air-to-ground guided bombs, which will enable them to strike key underground facilities in North Korea and shoot down combat [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state arms procurement agency on Thursday said it has picked U.S. company General Electric (GE) as the preferred bidder to supply engines for the country’s next-generation fighter jets. The U.S. company has been picked as the supplier for the Korean Fighter Experimental (KF-X) program, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea officially kicked off its multi billion-dollar project Thursday to produce homemade fighter jets over the next decade. Under the Korean Fighter Experimental (KF-X) project by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, contractor airplane maker Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) will come up with six units of a homegrown [...]