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)