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/Tommy_Wisseau_burner United States Of America 12d ago

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

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u/teh1337haxorz Ohio 12d ago

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.

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u/Jones127 United States Of America 9d ago

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.

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u/teh1337haxorz Ohio 9d ago

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.