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Serial production capacity are estimated 2-3 KF-21per month and 24+ units a year.

The usual motivations for treason, whistleblowing and leaking confidential data: money, greed, women, debts, ideological or egoistic reasons … It‘s human nature. There were several security breaches, hacking and espionage cases in Korean MIC in the past, will happen in the future as well. Main...

Out of my head: Strict security measures at KAI for physical items and non-physical data regarding KFX were checked and certified by LockMart and US officials. They made a damn fuss about locking Indonesians out before agreed ToT if I remember correctly (after the first F-35 deal) Therefore...

Seriously, putting some ass-old machines and items in mostly empty halls isn't investing. The cost of hight-tech machinery, CNC and composite matrix machines, aerospace tooling and equipment, industrial robots, IT data center, edge cloud computing and power distribution facilities for...

Don't know the exact details. There were Korean conditions like age, seniority and experience level for the members of the Indonesian dispatch at KAI. Afaik those aren't directly hired by KAI as well. During different development phases there were researchers from Indonesian science institutes...

Their Rafale procurement is financed through foreign loans from French Exim banks afaik. For KFX/IFX they have to pay out of their own gov pockets and invest heavily in domestic production lines which they also didn't do. The current administration is obviously unwilled to fulfil signed...

Could be anybody, Western aerospace industry competitors, Japan, North Korea, Taiwan ... who knows? Main suspect here is Indonesia. Already seen foreign mil-bloggers on Twitter scribbeling unfounded takes that Indonesia wants to "buy" into Turkish KAAN project with the data. Pure speculations...

Today's news report from SBS a few hours ago: 'Beep' just as the security checkpoint was passed ... ‘KF-21 confidential data’ poured out On the 17th of last month, an alarm sounded the moment a man passed the security checkpoint of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) in Sacheon...

The irony is, costs of accomodation and wages for dispatched Indonesian engineers and technicians are basically funded by KAI and Korean taxpayers due to years-long overdue payments by the Indonesian government.

I‘ve read other news outlets with similar reports. But it was dismissed so far: "There are reports from some media that the KF-21 technical data obtained by Indonesian technicians includes avionics equipment such as AESA radar, which is the eye of a fighter jet, and it has not been confirmed at...

I‘m quoting Korean news reports. SBS is as credible as Yonhap and a major media outlet. We‘ll see ☕️

One Indonesian was caught red handed at the KAI security check stand. Other dispatched Indonesian engineers are investigated too. Even without the alleged theft, Indonesia acted in bad faith during the whole KFX project. https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240202000623&ACE_SEARCH=1...

„It has been reported that the KF-21 technical data obtained by Indonesian engineers includes avionics equipment such as the AESA radar that serve as the eyes of the fighter, test flight data/technology, and other technology that encompasses the KF-21.“...

No, Reis class sub > $ 660 million per unit (EUR/USD conversion in 2009). Turkey selected German shipbuilder Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft's (now ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) Type 214-class air-independent propulsion (AIP) submarine design in 2008 to meet its requirement for new boats to replace...

True, retirement of the last F-4 squadron in Suwon this June 2024 already 😳 I was mistaken they would fly as long as F-5s until ~2030. So, then only Türkiye, Greece and Iran left with active F-4E Phantoms! Farewell post with cool old F-4 pics (in Korean)...

Depends on sales. KAI opened new production lines due to high demand and raised annual capacity from 36 up to 48 for T-50/TA-50/FA-50 series. KF-21 is estimated to reach a rate of 2-3 per month, so 24+ units annually if all production kinks are smoothed out. Cash strapped countries like...

Koreans rushing because we urgently need to replace ageing 80 F-5E/F and 19 F-4 Phantom II fighter jets which are literally falling from the sky due to mechanical failures and airframe fatigue. ROKAF has postponed retirement of both aircraft models several times. A dozen crashes since 2000 are...

In early 1990 technology demonstrator "Rafale A" aka ACX exactly did that: engine test flight of SNECMA M88 (on the left) + GE F404 (on the right). One of many sources: https://www.airvectors.net/avrafa.html

That‘s an optimistic outlook if everything goes fine according to plans. The bleak reality right now is: TurAF has zero active fighter jet with AESA radar and BVR missiles. While Greece already operates 12 Rafale F3R with AESA and Meteor AAM and 10 F-16V with AESA and AMRAAM. Murad AESA radar...

Turkish week at The War Zone: newest article about Türkiye’s F-16 request and air force outlook. Turkish F-16 Deal Now Being Fast-Tracked By Biden Admin Turkish acceptance of Sweden joining NATO looks to have kickstarted a long-delayed plan for Ankara to buy more F-16s. BY THOMAS NEWDICK|...