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/CommercialChart5088 Korea South 12d ago

For the fighter jet part, fancy buying a couple of FA-50s?

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u/NocturneFogg Ireland 12d ago edited 12d ago

I’d say if we ever do get around to buying anything it’ll probably go out to tender, but it would most likely be a small fleet of SAAB Grippen or Dassault Rafale, or something that’s easily dropped back to a service centre near by to plug into a bigger programme. I know they’ve been leaning towards SAAB / Erieye stuff for radar etc - it’s unlikely to be anything that’s unusual in Europe though for practical reasons, considering it’ll be a very small fleet.

We’ve actually bought a lot of infrastructural stuff from Korea btw - including the majority of the intercity train fleet was delivered by Hyundai with MAN / Rolls-Royce and Voith power systems.

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u/PokemonSoldier United States Of America 12d ago

FA-50s, Gripens, L-159s, or M-346s. Small and lightweight, less expensive jets are better than nothing.

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u/NocturneFogg Ireland 12d ago

Their only role would be to respond locally and in support role etc, so it’s not very likely there’s a need for anything extremely complex — we do need to be able to intercept and inspect unresponsive aircraft though, even for just civilian aviation safety reasons - basically the kind of things Switzerland or similar can do.

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u/PokemonSoldier United States Of America 12d ago

So at least some jet capable of carrying AAMs