Indonesia has come clean about its inability to pay for all of its share of the joint project for developing South Korean KF-21 fighter jets, leaving South Korea with no option but to cover the remainder of the costs. According to South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration on Tuesday, the Indonesian side has proposed to pay one third of its agreed share which is about 600 billion won ($441,014,.
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The Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21 Boramae (Northern Goshawk) is a multi-role 4.5 generation fighter. The aircraft is powered by two General Electric (GE) F414-400K turbofan engines. The KF-21 will be built in two capability blocks with the first increment storing munitions externally while the second block stores munitions in an internal weapons bay. The aircraft was formerly designated as KF-X until April 2021.
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By Choi Soo-hyang SACHEON, South Korea, March 1 (Yonhap) South Korea will showcase a prototype of the country s first indigenous fighter jet in April, the arms procurement agency has said. Jung Kwang-sun, heading the KF-X program at the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, said the planned rollout event will be a landmark moment for the country and the aerospace industry. After working only with the blueprint so far, we will now have something we can actually see and test whether what we have been studying actually works, Jung told reporters at the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) headquarters in the southern city of Sacheon on Wednesday.