SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown KF-21 fighter jet passed a provisional combat suitability evaluation earlier this week, the state arms procurement agency said Tuesday, in a key milestone ahead of its initial production phase set to begin next year. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said the evaluation by the Joint [...]
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, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The second prototype of South Korea’s homegrown fighter jet, the KF-21 Boramae, made its successful maiden test flight Thursday, the country’s arms agency said. It took off from the Air Force’s 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, at 9:49 a.m. and landed without [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown KF-21 fighter successfully carried out its first flight test Tuesday, around 6 1/2 years after its mammoth development project kicked off despite skepticism over technological obstacles, cost effectiveness and other feasibility questions. At the Air Force’s 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, about 300 kilometers south [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military has unveiled a computer-generated video of a homegrown fighter and radar-evading drones in a joint sortie, offering a glimpse into a future battle concept mixing the manned and unmanned assets currently under development. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) recently posted the short video on its [...]