SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to develop an advanced turbofan engine for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with its own technology by 2025, the arms procurement agency said Thursday. As the most modern variation of the basic gas turbine for UAVs, the turbofan engine is known to be fuel efficient and produce [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Air Force is pushing to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to better defend its air bases across the country, officials said Sunday. The Air Force has recently commissioned a research project into the use of drones for operations over air bases, the officials said. Currently closed-circuit [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 1 air carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said Sunday that it has signed a 400 billion-won (US$333.5 million) deal with the military procurement agency to mass-produce reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of the government’s plan to build up its aerial mission capability. Under the [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A new step in the development of Korea’s unmanned aerial vehicle technology has been reached with the introduction of a tilt-rotor drone that can take-off and land vertically like a helicopter, but is also capable of fast flight like an airplane. On April 10, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) introduced the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) succeeded in flying a cell powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for 80 minutes. The hydrogen fuel cells powering the UAV were able to hit 600W of output, even though the UAV weighed 28 kilograms. The combined output of the cells was three times [...]