Tag: KF-X

Development of Korea’s KF-X Fighter is Nearly Complete

| March 3, 2021

This will be a big accomplishment by South Korea’s aerospace industry once complete:

Engineers in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang on Wednesday work on a nearly completed prototype of the country's first indigenously developed fighter jet. [YONHAP]
Engineers in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang on Wednesday work on a nearly completed prototype of the country’s first indigenously developed fighter jet. [YONHAP]

A nearly completed prototype of Korea’s first indigenous fighter jet was unveiled to the media in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang on Wednesday ahead of its official rollout in April.  
   
Jung Kwang-sun, chief of the Korea Fighter Experimental (KF-X) project of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), said the first domestically produced fighter jet will be a “landmark moment” for the country and its aerospace industry. 
   
Aimed at replacing the Air Force’s dated McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Northrop F-5 fighter jets, the 92-percent-completed KF-X prototype is the first fruit of a development project that began in 2015, led by Korea’s sole aircraft manufacturer, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI). 

Joong Ang Ilbo

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Picture of the Day: South Korea’s KF-X Fighter Jet

| July 2, 2018

S. Korea's KF-X fighter jet design

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)