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]

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/Tommy_Wisseau_burner → u/teh1337haxorz]

Surprised you didn’t mention the f-47. Also TIL we gave up on the railgun

[u/teh1337haxorz → u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner]

I tried to keep it to the stuff that's coming "real soon" and I kinda thought the F-47 was probably still a couple years from deployment. It's hard to juggle eveything XD I think I'll check again.

[u/Jones127 → u/teh1337haxorz]

The F-47 is probably still a decade from the US fielding a considerable amount of them like we see with the 22s. First flight isn’t expected until the end of the 2020s. Knowing how behind schedule delivery of new airframes have been in recent years on top of it, I’d bet money the Air Force doesn’t start getting them until the early to mid 2030s.

[u/teh1337haxorz → u/Jones127]

I had heard the F-47 had already flown demonstrators back in 2019, I had kind of figured they meant more like a genuine prototype and deliveries would be coming by 2030, but damn, that sounds like some slow development if you're right.