Picture of the Day: South Korea’s KF-X Fighter Jet
This image released by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration on June 29, 2018, shows the design of South Korea’s indigenous fighter jet KF-X program aimed at manufacturing 120 advanced fighter jets to replace the Air Force’s aging F-4 and F-5 combat planes. South Korea plans to complete the design process by Sep. 2019 and produce the first prototype in 2021. (Yonhap)
The North Korean Confederacy Air Force is going to love these babies.
looks familiar for some reason…not sure why.
Me thinks a display copy will be set up at the Korean War Memorial with a placard that says the US F-35 was based of this design.
I was thinking the same, Flyingsword.
Think it’s because it looks very much like the F22…except all the kit (missiles, extended fuel tanks and so forth) is on the outside.
Image
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/we-now-have-clear-proof-the-f-22-raptor-will-dominate-over-20863
All the stuff on the outside is there to allow nork radar/missile sites to knock ’em down…
Incomplete; but details some of the issues involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAI_KF-X
Good point, not stealth if you are hanging crap on the out side of it….