Zitat:South Korea eyes US fighters

South Korea could approach the USA to seek access to the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor or F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as it looks beyond its current procurements and responds to Japan's expansion plans. ...

Zitat:Boeing Makes Sole Bid for Korean Fighter Jet Contract


(Source: Korea Overseas Information Service; issued May 10, 2007)

Boeing Co. of the United States has turned out to be the sole bidder again for a multi-billion-dollar contract to provide Korea with 20 advanced combat aircraft by 2012, defense industry officials here said Thursday (May 10). ...

Zitat:Eurocopter's KHP Helicopter Deal

In a December 2005 article, DID covered Korea's planned acquisition of approximately 245 utility transport helicopters, which would be developed and produced as a semi-indigenous program in conjunction with contract winner EADS Eurocopter. The KHP will be in the 8-tonne class, and will be designed to carry 11 troops. South Korea currently owns around 700 helicopters, but more than half are considered outdated, and they need to be replaced. Industrial offsets were also important, as the program is designed to boost indigenous industrial manufacturing capability for rotary-wing aircraft. ...

Zitat:UK-Italy Helicopter Maker Vying for Korean Attack Chopper Bids


By Jung Sung-ki
Korea Times Correspondent

VERGIATE, Italy ― It was a sunny autumn day and the "chop-chop" sound of the rotor blade of a helicopter was heard from the air. A blue and white helicopter was sinking out of the blue sky and approaching the ground.

"That's the helicopter for Samsung," Roberto Caprarella, a media relations official of AgustaWestland, an U.K.-Italy helicopter company, said Nov. 11 while leading a tour of a plant here, located about 45 kilometers northwest of Italy's northern city of Milan.

The helicopter was the first of the two AW139 medium-sized utility helicopters ordered by Samsung Techwin, a defense business arm of Samsung Group, the largest conglomerate in South Korea, Carprella said.

The helicopter, used to transport of Samsung VIPs and top executives, was there for pilot training before final delivery, he said. The other is to be delivered for the first quarter of next year.

Quintus Fabius schrieb:Wie sieht es eigentlich mit den Plänen der Südkoreaner aus, ein 5 Generation Kampfflugzeug zu entwickeln?!

Zitat:South Korea Drops 5th-Generation Fighter Plan

SEOUL - South Korea will refocus its KF-X fighter-development program, which aimed to create a fifth-generation stealth fighter, and instead solicit foreign firms' help in producing about 250 F-16-class fighter jets after 2010, according to a research institute here.

The Weapon Systems Concept Development and Application Research Center of Konkuk University was ordered in April by the government to look at the feasibility of the controversial KF-X effort, which originally aimed to produce and market about 120 aircraft, stealthier than Dassault's Rafale or the Eurofighter Typhoon but not as stealthy as Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II......

Zitat:Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules - Südkorea (4)
2. Dezember 2010
Die Flugzeuge sollen 2014 geliefert werden. Es handelt sich um die gestreckte Version. Südkorea betreit bereits ältere Hercules.

Zitat:Im Konflikt mit dem kommunistischen Norden setzt Südkorea auf massive Aufrüstung: Das Land kündigt den Kauf von Kampfhubschraubern des US-Konzerns Boeing im Wert von 1,6 Milliarden Dollar an - angeblich geht es um 36 Maschinen.

Zitat:EADS is known as the company to have stepped out of the race, according to sources in Seoul.

"We disqualified the concerned company and will consider the remaining one firm as a candidate in the committee for defense procurement projects," the DAPA said in a release, citing "flaws found in the bidding documents" as reasons of the elimination.

Although the DAPA required the bidders to submit prices for 15 two-seater jets and 45 single-seat jets, EADS reduced the number of double-seater aircraft to six, and offered prices based on the British pound, according to a company official.

"We submitted the proposal to meet the budget because two-seater jets are more expensive than single-seat jets," the senior EADS official said. "Out of 54 jets, the proposal offers to assemble 53 aircraft in South Korea."

ObiBiber schrieb:Idioten!!!

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EADS will diesen Auftrag doch nicht... oder wieso stellen sie sich so dumm an???