SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state procurement agency on Wednesday hinted at accepting Indonesia’s proposal to reduce its cost sharing for the KF-21 fighter jet program under the condition of providing fewer technology transfers, a move that would increase the financial burden on Seoul. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said Indonesia [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has been deliberating on Indonesia’s proposal to reduce its payment for a joint development project for the KF-21 fighter jet, the state procurement agency said Tuesday, amid an ongoing probe into an alleged technology leak by Indonesian engineers. Indonesia has reportedly suggested paying only 600 billion won [...]
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 [...]