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Monday, August 01, 2011

S. Korea's first spy plane arrives for deployment


South Korea's first surveillance airplane to be deployed this year arrived at an Air Force base on Monday, the country's defense procurement agency said.

The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said an E-737, the country's first airborne early warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft from Boeing, landed at the Air Force base in Gimhae, about 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

The aircraft, based on Boeing's 737-700, has been dubbed "Peace Eye" after a naming contest in 2008.

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