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On January 17, 2023, the KF-21 successfully achieved its first supersonic flight. The KF-21 first prototype took off from the ROKAF's 3rd Training Wing and broke the sound barrier (Mach 1.0, approximately 1,224 km/h) for the first time while flying at an altitude of about 40,000 feet over the South Sea. [65]
In December 2016, South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced plans to start development on a long-range air-to-ground missile in 2018, based on Taurus. The weapon was to be mounted on the KAI KF-21 Boramae fighter, to be developed by the mid-2020s. [30]
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The Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21 Boramae (Northern Goshawk) is a multi-role 4.5 generation fighter built By Korean KAI and Indonesian PT DI. It will have capabilities in between the light FA-50 fighter and the high-grade, long-range, heavy payload F-15K and F-35 Lightning II. [13] [14]
The system is not without faults. In December 2020, a malfunction with the computer flight control system caused the first production Su-57 to crash. [19] An automatic software response to an overheat condition apparently has contributed to a crash of an F-22. [20] Issues with the avionics also contributed to an F-35A crash in 2020. [21]
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It is equipped with a modified Israeli EL/M-2032 pulse-Doppler radar with Korean-specific modifications by LIG Nex1. [21] The engine could be either Eurojet EJ200 or General Electric F414 with thrust of 89 to 98 kN (20,000 to 22,000 lbf), roughly 12–25% higher than the F404's thrust; [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and are offered to prospective customers for ...
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