New and Improved: South Korean K1A2 Main Battle Tanks are Leveling Up
Jane’s reported that the South Korean Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DATQ) will conduct “advanced research” between June and October of this year to determine how best to further enhance a number of the K1A2’s performance.
Here s What You Need to Remember: These tanks highlight the great strides made by South Korea to build up its arms industry. The nation’s foreign policy has focused largely on deterring acts of aggression by North Korea for nearly seven decades, which is completely understandable given the two nations are still technically at war though an armistice halted the fighting in 1953.
South Korea s Light Armed Helicopter provisionally declared fit for combat
14 December 2020
by Gabriel Dominguez & Dae Young Kim
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has provisionally declared the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) fit for combat.
KAI announced in an 11 December statement that DAPA’s assessment, which came five years and six months after the launch of the LAH project, “lays the foundation” for mass production of the helicopter, development of which is due to be completed by late 2022.
KAI announced on 11 December that DAPA provisionally declared the LAH helicopter (seen here test-firing the locally developed Chungum ATGM) fit for combat operations. (KAI)