South Korea said the end of the next stage of promising multipurpose fighter. South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) released preliminary fighter project with the Ministry of Defense of the Republic KF-X, transfers “Warspot” with reference to the portal defensenews.com.
Head of the program to create a fighter KF-X Jung Kwang San, He stated, By September 2018 It planned to complete all design work and begin construction of prototypes, to be established in 2020-2021 years. Conduct a full test and establish mass production scheduled for the fighter 2026 year. Fighter will be installed on the missile system manufactured in Europe, but what kind of, not specified.
recall, that the first mention of the beginning of the multirole fighter development project of the program was made in 2001 year. The beginning of work on the KF-X project told South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. AT 2010 year to develop joined Indonesia. Within the project it will get 80 fighters, a Seoul – 120. It should be noted, that the project is not developed by the fifth generation aircraft. Countries agreed to create a plane, surpassing the fourth-generation fighters such as the F-16, but it does not possess the stealth capabilities of the fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35 and F-22.
