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Hanwha Aerospace, Korea‘s main gas turbine and aircraft engine manufacturer, locally assembles and produces parts for F414-GE-400K engines of KF-21. They‘re also involved in a highly secretive development project of a 5,500~8,500 lbf dry thrust turbofan engine intended for stealth UAVs until...

Over the decades Japan received a substantial transfer of technologies from the US for their civilian aerospace and space programs. When Japan independently developed their own F-2 fighter, the US intervened and made it a collaboration project to guarantee a US parts involvement and hinder the...

Maybe 2nd tier turbofan engine parts manufacturers from Germany, Italy or Spain. India with their domestic Kaveri engine (Pakistan would flip out). Japan's IHI with its XF9 engine (US would flip out, IHI now teamed up with 6th gen GCAP/Tempest group).

Afaik over 90% of K2 are domestic parts. Altay and K2 doesn't use 1:1 common parts because of many differences: turret design with ammo compartment (K2 has bustle-type autoloader), chassis with different driver's position and number of wheels etc. Now after a decade the differences of the Otokar...

Thanks for the info! I only knew so far, that the US M256 isn‘t a 1:1 copy of the Rh 120 mm/L44. Thought the KM256 licensed gun included a Rheinmetall involvement.

As @Afif posted earlier, GDP per capita can‘t be the sole factor for economic development. We have to further factor in: - inflation rate over the years - devaluation of the Turkish Lira - cost of living per household - disposable net income per household - net savings per household - … to get...

Economic illiteracy is so widespread, the case of the African Erdo fanboy prooves it again. GDP growth of South Korea: $11,561 per capita in 2001 $34,998 per capita in 2021 A plus of $23,437 in 2 decades under 5 different presidents from conservative and liberal-democratic parties. Healthy...

According to Hanwha Aerospace (rocket engine maker and main system integrator of Nuri) one launch costs around $80 million, their goal is to halve the price by 2032. 3 more launches with further enhanced and improved KSLV-II versions (3 stages, 4 clustered 75 ton thrust engines in main stage)...

Officially confirmed now: Korea successfully launched Nuri KSLV-II, all 8 satellites released into orbit as planned What a great achievement for a small country like the Republic of Korea! 🇰🇷 Congratulations and thanks to all involved scientists, engineers, technicians and project managers...

As a downside F-35Bs have a lesser MTOW which reduces the operation range and weapons load. F-35Cs are the real replacements for carrier-borne F/A-18s. I bet my left nut that some untraced spare parts landed in Chinese hands. More for making a quick buck with fake copys than military...

Nuri rocket’s 3rd launch postponed Software problem with ground control found 3 hours before blastoff GOHEUNG, South Jeolla Province -- South Korea postponed the third launch of the homegrown Nuri rocket due to a software error during the...

If KAI redesigns the FA-50 to a single seat F-50 with a more powerful GE F-414 like the Gripen E (new tail and air intakes) and a new nose radome-size for a bigger AESA radar it would practically become a F-16V Mini 😁

$920 million deal. Enjoy the ROKAF Black Eagles with their beautiful T-50 birds on world tour, also at LIMA 2023 in Malaysia.블랙이글스 팀워크!

Thanks for your info. Another Korean member who couldn‘t get the head around this issue 😅

India's rocket engine and space programs are doing really well. Impressive milestones achieved in this field dominated by US, Europe, Russia and China. Curious, why many Indian weapon development and defense procurement programs aren't going as well ...

D-1 Nuri (KSLV-II) set up for 3rd launch Nuri will launch this time 8 satellites (240 kg payload) at 550 km LEO on May 24th at 6:24 pm local time (11:24 am CET) from Naro Space Center, a southern island in Goheung, South Jeolla Province. KSLV-II can send up to 1.9 tons of payload to a...

Never seen such a 30 years regulation on official documents. Is the Turkish Özgür upgrade done with US approval? Always wondered about that ... My guess is, such modification permissions are results of direct negotiations between US gov and foreign states. As an example, Israeli F-16s had...

The drone in the last picture was an earlier design iteration of the "KUS-X" stealth UCAV program based on the KAORI-X ("Stingray-X") demonstrator. KAI lost the bid to KAL (Korean Airlines), so there's only this official government funded stealth project ongoing. Korean Airline also presented a...

The project progress is going very well so far: 200 of planned 2.000 flight tests done. As of today: S. Korea's KF-21 fighter gets 'provisional' combat suitability evaluation The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said the evaluation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff came Monday...

Successful first flight of KF-21 prototype no. 5 equipped with domestic AESA radar Edit: video changed bc of too loud audio (caution, it’s still loud 🎧) Quickly Google translated article: All 4 single-seat machines and 1 double-seat machine succeeded… The last unit 6 is scheduled to fly...