Kim Minseok covers South Korean defense. He has worked as a journalist for South Korean military magazines Military Review and Defense Times. Mr Kim is also a research fellow at the Korea Defense and Security Forum, a think tank.
From next year until 2026, Indonesia will pay the Korean government in cash and barter commodities in exchange for the right to license the manufacturing of 48 KF-21s.
South Korean defense agencies and manufacturers are in the exploratory stages of developing manned-unmanned teaming to operate alongside KF-21 fighter.
Boeing and Sikorsky are competing for the South Korean Army’s Heavy-Lift Utility Helicopter-II program, pitching their CH-47F Chinook and CH-53K King Stallion, respectively.
