After years of debate over developing or buying stealth fighter jets, South Korea is turning its eyes toward building an unmanned combat aircraft with foreign partners.
As consensus builds that the KF-X project to develop a fifth-generation stealth aircraft is economically and technically nonviable, the head of the Air Force's combat power development bureau has called for a shift in focus.
"Developing an F-16-class indigenous fighter is meaningless given changing trends in warfare. Developing a full stealth fighter is also beyond our economic power," Brig. Gen. Lee Hee-woo said at an international air power seminar in Seoul late last month.
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