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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Korea's Own Supersonic Fighter to Start Service in 2011

A-50 supersonic light attack aircraftThe Air Force is to deploy the A-50 supersonic light attack aircraft developed with homegrown technology from 2011.

An Air Force official said on Tuesday once the T-50/T-A50 are all delivered by 2011, the force will deploy some 60 in all to replace the superannuated A-37. The A-50, which completed its first flight at an Air Force base in South Gyeongsang Province in September 2003, will be armed with 20 mm machine guns, AIM-9 sidewinder missiles, AGM-65 air-to-ground missiles, GBU-12 laser-guided bombs, and MK-20 bomb clusters.

It is also to be equipped with an APG-67 multimode radar offering various forms of geographical and target data.

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