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Monday, November 15, 2010

Development setback for Seoul's spy plane

Raytheon Hawker 800XPDevelopment of South Korea's signal intelligence plane is in question after Korea Aerospace Industries pulled out of the bidding over funding and equipment concerns.

South Korea was aiming for 2014 to deploy two new Baekdu reconnaissance aircraft, named after the Korean Peninsula's highest mountain.

The South Korean air force has four Raytheon Hawker 800XP aircraft for SIGINT operations, bought in 2000. The planes, based at Seongnam Air Base, take pictures of installations up to 50 miles deep into North Korean territory as they fly along the Korean Demilitarized Zone that has divided the two Koreas -- still technically at war -- since 1953.

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