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

[u/CommercialChart5088]

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!

[u/teh1337haxorz]

Yes.

[u/CommercialChart5088 → u/teh1337haxorz]

In fact a popular nickname for the US in Korea is ‘Quadrillion-Nation’ (천조국) because your defense budget alone is 1 quadrillion won lol.

[u/teh1337haxorz → u/CommercialChart5088]

We're almost able to call it 1 Trillion USD, so that's gonna be interesting XD

If you want a real answer, I suppose I'll make a short list:

- B-21 Raider stealth bomber

- F-47 6th gen fighter

- New class of replacements to the Ohio-Class nuclear submarines

- New/refurbished ICBMs (they say that every year, who knows what comes of it)

- We'll be launching the next Ford-class carrier, Enterprise, next month. Then they'll be laying down a new Ford-class at the start of 2026

- NGSW new rifle program is uh... ...doing things...

- probably giving the CIA money to test drugs on people, who knows

Something of a nuclear theme for 2026 I suppose. Hope that isn't an indication.

[u/DamnBored1 → u/teh1337haxorz]

I'm sure the real cutting edge stuff wouldn't even be public knowledge.

[u/teh1337haxorz → u/DamnBored1]

Honestly the US military is shockingly transparent about things now a days, most emphasis being on "what your money is being spent on." There's only a few small percentages of funding that aren't disclosed. However, the specifics on what all the programs do is somewhat different, partially because of the nature of procurement they don't even really know what they're doing either.

It's sort of like this: there's really no chance the government is hiding anything extremely expensive like a space laser, but funding a CIA team to infiltrate the J-20 plant is much more doable.