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, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will embark on the production of a homegrown long-range radar prototype later this year under a project to replace the existing decades-old radar systems, the country’s state arms procurement agency said Wednesday. Launched in February last year, the project worth 46.7 billion won (US$37 million) is aimed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is working to develop a lithium-ion battery to be used for a submarine to improve its underwater time, the arms procurement agency said Thursday. Starting next month, the government will begin producing the battery’s prototype for the new 3,600-ton Jang Bogo-III Class submarine currently under development, according [...]
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, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The assembly of the first prototype Light Armed Helicopter (LAH), which is under development using South Korean domestic technology, has begun. “The assembly unit at the headquarters of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) will commence assembly of the first LAH prototype,” announced the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) on [...]