South Korea 5th Gen Fighter Programme

[Storm Force]

South Korea Drops 5th-Generation Fighter Plan - Defense News

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[Storm Force]

looks a neat fighter and will be in service by 2020 they hope

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Great to see Asian countries advancing. Let's see if Japan can beat Korea in 5th gen jets.

 

[Machoman]

I think they already did by palnning to buy couple of F-22 which is more then enough!

 

[TOPGUN]

Looks nice!

 

[Thomas]

This could be the main reason the project was dropped.


South Korea Offered New ‘Stealthy’ F-15 Eagle

Source: Korea Times
Date: 18 March 2009

The U.S. Boeing Company unveiled a new F-15 Eagle fighter jet featuring radar-evading stealth technology Wednesday, announcing its bid for South Korea’s third phase F-X fighter jet acquisition program, to begin by 2012.
Earlier, Seoul officials said the third phase program would focus on obtaining the so-called fifth-generation stealth fighters. The F-X aims to procure 120 high-end warplanes by 2020, and Boeing already won the previous two deals with its F-15K fighters.
Boeing officials said the forthcoming F-15 “Silent Eagle (SE)” could provide Korea’s Air Force with “cost-effective stealth” technologies as well as the F-15 Eagle’s traditional long-range, large-payload capabilities.
Brad G. Jones, program manager of Boeing’s F-15 Future Programs, said in video briefing from St. Louis for Korean journalists in a Seoul hotel that his firm was ready to offer the F-15SE for Seoul’s next phase F-X deal.
“Improvements in stealth include coatings and treatments on the aircraft,” Jones said. “With the added advantage of redesigned conformal fuel tanks (CTFs) that allow for internal weapons carriage, the Silent Eagle becomes a very attractive fighter for Boeing’s international customers.”
Boeing has completed a conceptual prototype of the CFT internal-carriage concept and plans to flight-test a prototype by the first quarter of 2010, including a live missile launch, he said.
Besides South Korea, target customers for the F-15SE program include Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Israel, he added.
“The Silent Eagle will be able to internally carry air-to-air missiles such as the AIM-9 and AIM-120 and air-to-ground weapons such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and Small Diameter Bomb (SDB),” Jones said.
Other improvements include the digital flight control system, which improves the aircraft’s reliability and reduces airframe weight, and a digital electronic warfare system working in concert with an advanced electronic scanning array radar, Boeing said in a news release.

PICTURES: Boeing unveils upgraded F-15 Silent Eagle with fifth-generation features-17/03/2009-Washington DC-Flight International

Looking again at this picture it struck me how much this aircraft would be a success if they had added thrust vectoring to it.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Great to see Asian countries advancing. Let's see if Japan can beat Korea in 5th gen jets.

hey listen to me, its a 5th gen A/C with 'external' hard points HUH!!
It must carry AAMs & other weapons internally, wrong picture

 

[duhastmish]

lol thank god - they chucked it out and not making it .

if they didnt even think of basics such as - internal bay . money of koreans is saved.

 

[Thomas]

lol thank god - they chucked it out and not making it .

if they didnt even think of basics such as - internal bay . money of koreans is saved.

The F-15 SE has internal bays.

 

[Thomas]

hey listen to me, its a 5th gen A/C with 'external' hard points HUH!!
It must carry AAMs & other weapons internally, wrong picture

actually the South Koreans never had an indigenous program to build a stealth aircraft. they had a program to acquire them which is what the KF-X initiative was. The article seems to be a hoax made up of partial truths. do a Google search and you will not find a program to build a 5th generation fighter at least I couldn't. Some one please prove me wrong! they did study the feasibility of having a program but decided against it.

nice modeling skills though in the picture.

Kudos to emo_girl for noticing the model differences when everyone else missed it.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

lol thank god - they chucked it out and not making it .

if they didnt even think of basics such as - internal bay . money of koreans is saved.

yes, now they must kick their Chief Engineer & employ me as their new Chief Engineer

 

[Silent observer]

I think they already did by palnning to buy couple of F-22 which is more then enough!

they planned for either F22 or eurofighter (one of the two) for induction. as far as i know, US refused them F22, at the moment, but instead placed some f22 (may be a sqdn) here in japan to counter their security concerns. i do not know any news about eurofighter purchase.

regards

 

[ironman]

hey listen to me, its a 5th gen A/C with 'external' hard points HUH!!
It must carry AAMs & other weapons internally, wrong picture

It can carry weapons both ways similar to F-35 and F-22.. and now look at the belly side of that model.

 

[ISRO2]

yes, now they must kick their Chief Engineer & employ me as their new Chief Engineer

Am praying for that mam. i think only two 5th generation jet fighter will rule the sky. Thats is pak-fa and F-35. While F-22, J-xx and sout korea 5th generation jet fighters wont be upto high level. India alot lucky its partner of russia in Pak-fa project. Now just two months remain untill we see real pak-fa flying in sky mam.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

It can carry weapons both ways similar to F-35 and F-22.. and now look at the belly side of that model.

internal weapon bay is one of the main features of 5th Gen A/Cs
will u explain a bit...