Korea KF-X/ IF-X (KF-21) program

[Passenger]

I think that ROK has adopted an intelligent approach to developing KF-X. Design an airframe that can be converted to an IWB airframe without re-starting design from scratch, resulting in an aircraft that is very competitive cost-wise with sophisticated 4G fighters, then modify the design to give ROK air force a 5G fighter and address the 5G export market.

ROK could be selling a 4G Rafale/F-16 competitor for quite a few years and also a 5G competitor to F-35 (and KAAN and AMCA when they appear) for many more years.

Maybe it will be called as KF-35.

 

[urban mine]

The video has been released. It doesn't move me the way it used to, but I'm still happy.

 

[urban mine]

Maybe it will be called as KF-35.

General RoK Air Force News & Developments

I looked up the ROKAF igloos after watching the FPV raid on a Russian air base . HAS from the USAF are also in the mix. But the Russian Air Force's losses can't be attributed solely to the lack of these hardened shelters. Who would have thought that a truck-mounted FPV could attack a strategic...

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Future next-generation fighters may well be based on this testbed. Of course, the KF-21 probably won’t remain merely a 4.5-generation fighter either, but we’ll have to wait for the Air Force to make a clear statement before we can be sure.