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Successful extreme weather conditions and environmental simulation test of KF-21 004 prototype: simulation of low temperature, rainfall, icing waterproofing and anti-icing performance test on the ground

He‘s on an official 10 day-trip to India, Türkiye and UAE to promote defense cooperation. Korean top military is interested in advanced Turkish drone technology, therefore a visit to Baykar is a must. „He will also discuss ways to promote cooperation with each respective country in various...

A must see for military enthusiasts: Book a DMZ day trip (Imjingak area & North Korean intrusion tunnels or the Joint Security Area in Panmunjeom). https://www.viator.com/Seoul-attractions/DMZ/d973-a8969 Visit the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, an extensive exhibition of Korean war...

Sorry, can’t help much. I‘m more into defense than tourism. There‘re tons of travel sites, blogs and instagram channels for Korean travel. Jeju is a beautiful, rough island, but not „tropical“ like Hawaii as many might think. According to season it can be very windy and rainy. A climb up or...

KF-21 fighter jet successfully completes aerial refueling test Without music: Korea's supersonic KF-21 fighter jet successfully completed an aerial refueling test expanding its operational radius for the first time on Tuesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced...

I think @Windchime has more substantial infos than me. Unlike Türkiye the Korean gov releases next to nothing to the media about our classified ramjet, scramjet and turbofan engine projects. 2013 development start of low bypass military turbofan engine by Agency for Defense Development (ADD)...

Nah, ROK is far from being a „naive state“: We are one of the most ready armed forces (air, land, sea) in the Western bloc right after the US. And China isn‘t ready yet for total naval war for the next 10-15 years. And we are well prepared, ROK Navy has more firepower than all ASEAN navies in...

Good-bye, Goblins of the Sky! Farewell Elephant Walk at Suwon Air Base for the last F-4E Phantoms in ROKAF soon to be retired and replaced by F-35A in June 2024. - The first Elephant Walk involving all types of fighter jets - Showing off the majesty of over 30 fighter jets, led by the F-4E...

Pretty transparent in my opinion, they showed every company logo as subcontractor who delivered a nut and bolt or software program. 65% of KF-21 is locally produced right now and that ratio will climb further with every iteration up to domestic turbofan engines (F-414 class) til the mid 2030s.

Most of South Korean strategic defense projects (from missiles to satellites) were actively undermined or indirectly hindered by US policy maneuvers throughout our industrial development. That's a well-known fact by Koreans in the defense industry. We had to rely on Russian and European ToT to...

First, Wikipedia is an unreliable source not accepted by academia and filled with false/fake/unproofed claims because anybody from his basement cellar can edit articles with nonsense. As the quoted parts of foreign development "partners" and subcontractors is full of contradictions and half-true...

Yepp, definitely L3Harris Wescam MX-15 series.

Major East Asian guided missile „destroyers“ from JP, KOR, CN are cruisers in size >10,000+ t displacement.

Actually their armament ain‘t so bad (could be more VLS cells for its destroyer displacement). Sachsen class frigates are armed with: 1x 76mm OTO Melara gun 32x VLS (SM2 IIIA or quad-packed ESSM) 2x RAM launchers as CIWS 8x Harpoon AShM 6x MU90 light torpedos 2x 27mm autocannon SM2 have also...

All these conspiracy theories about secret kill switches and software backdoors 🙄 all these „morons“ paying billions 💵💵💵 for US weapon systems … btw, Türkiye wants to buy 40 F-16Vs and 950+ AMRAAMs, please. The MQ-9 switched off its IFF and operated „black“ without informing allied navy ships...