SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Indonesia said its engineers under probe over allegedly stealing technologies related to the KF-21 fighter jet under development will provide their “full cooperation” in the investigation, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday. The engineers dispatched to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) are under suspicion of storing data on KF-21 development [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesian engineers have been under investigation over allegedly stealing technologies related to the KF-21 fighter jet under development, the state-run procurement agency said Friday. The engineers dispatched to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) are under suspicion of storing data on KF-21 development on a USB, according to the Defense Acquisition [...]
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, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully carried out the first armament tests on two prototypes of its homegrown KF-21 fighter Tuesday, the state arms procurement agency said, in a step to vet its combat capabilities. The prototypes underwent separate tests over the waters off the country’s southern coast after they took off [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown KF-21 Boramae fighter jet prototypes have successfully conducted their first nighttime flights, the state arms procurement agency said Friday. The third and fourth prototypes of the KF-21 conducted the test flights the previous night, as their lighting device operated normally, according to the Defense Acquisition Program [...]
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, 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. 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, 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 [...]