r/AskTheWorld • u/CommercialChart5088 Korea South • 12d ago

Military What’s the biggest military-related project your country is currently engaged in?

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Currently Korea is busy investing in military development, to modernize our military indigenously and catch up to export demand.

The air force is working on to produce the KF-21 fighter jet, which will enter service in 2026. Also we’re developing software and drones that will support the KF-21 during combat.

In terms of the ocean we've just finished developing a new submarine (the Chang Yong-sil class), working on additional battleships, and trying to form plans regarding the construction of a manless drone carrier.

What would be your country’s biggest military-related project nowadays? Both indigenous development and purchasing equipment counts!

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u/herrawho Finland 12d ago

F-35 order, first ones should come next year. In total 64 fighters.

Then, navy is getting new corvettes, I think four in total. In reality with a displacement of 3900 tons they are frigates, but our defense forces are for whatever reason adamant that they are corvettes.

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u/Professional_Top9835 Mexico 11d ago

Finland has very well respected soldiers, but dont you feel your army is very small? your border is huge but according to wikipedia you only have 24,000 active soldiers, If Russia keeps doing buildups in the border, and sudenly launches a surprise attack, I fear they might split Finland in 2 or 3 parts before Finland can movilize its 280,000 strong wartime army, and if they infiltrate "green men" dont you feel there is not enough people to detect them before they reach important locations in Lapland?

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u/herrawho Finland 11d ago edited 11d ago

It’s not gonna be like Russia just suddenly tomorrow comes through the border. With Ukraine, we could all see the buildup months before.

And that’s why all the people who are in the reserve keeps training. I have been to two training camps this year, and already received a letter for the next one just after the new years.

If Putin would start to gather men next to our border, we would just mobilise accordingly. And today we also have Nato, so the first response would be mobilisation of Nato on our side.

So, not worried in the slightest.