South Korea Receives Sigint Aircraft Based On Falcon 2000

Kim Minseok Bradley Perrett June 16, 2017
Baekdu

South Korea's most recent Baekdu signals intelligence-gathering aircraft is based on a Dassault Falcon 2000 business jet.

Credit: Ji Daehyen
Keeping an eye on what North Korea is up to will be ever more important as the hermit state becomes ever more threatening. Evidently not satisfied with an already substantial fleet of signals intelligence (sigint) aircraft, South Korea has begun operating at least one new unit based on a Dassault...
Kim Minseok

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.

Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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