south korea

South Korea's turbofan engine for the CCA, which has been under development since 2013, has finally been unveiled to the public, so I thought this was a good time to start this thread.

View: https://youtu.be/zf9dC2QV0ng https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/hd-hhi-and-sima-peru-ink-agreement-to-jointly-develop-submarine/

A 737-800 flying from Thailand to Korea has run off the runway and hit a wall during a belly landing at Muan International Airport. Reported to be 173 Korean, 2 Thai passengers and 6 crew. 47 confirmed dead so far with 2 confirmed survivors (a passenger and a flight attendant). Early reports...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/hd-hhi-submarines-in-the-polands-orka-program/ This HDS-2300 is apparently a joint marketing effort with Babcock. Oddly enough, Babcock provides the weapons handling system. Not sure if that means it’s a British system? Specs: 2,300 tons...

Planting or removing? https://www.spacewar.com/reports/N_Korea_plants_tens_of_thousands_of_mines_on_border_Seoul_999.html

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2024/04/11/south-korean-military-paves-way-for-robotic-vehicles-in-its-ranks/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_dfn

View: https://twitter.com/mason_8718/status/1698700306627150210?s=20

Latest concept design for K3 came out and I felt it is good time to post general summary on the development of the tank. Shown in the background, visual image suggest it will use 130mm gun, and has cockpit module similar to Russian T-14 Armata. History The goal of the XK3 project is to...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62910462

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/south-koreans-including-army-captain-allegedly-spied-for-north/6550135.html

Is the Korean system fully indigenous?

According to information published by the South Korean Yonhap News Agency on February 1, 2022, South Korea signed a contract to sell K9 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over US$1.65 billion Citing the information from the South Korean Press agency Yonhap News...

We know how much influence the Vietnam War had on US (and other countries) aircraft developments. But what if the Vietnam War had never happened? How would aircraft programs been affected in that scenario? Let's assume in this scenario the Geneva Accords of 1954 end up in a single united...

South Korea’s first launch of next-gen rocket ends in failure: View: https://youtu.be/N5_VEL6U0_g

I noticed that there wasnt a thread dedicated to KAI's light fighter/trainer aircraft (most of the news went to the KF-21 thread or Tejas instead). so here we go. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20210720005000320 Indonesia buys 6 more Golden Eagles!

https://defence-blog.com/news/south-korea-unveils-design-for-future-military-transport-aircraft.html View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3IZC2UY-kk

https://spacenews.com/hanwha-systems-to-launch-2000-leo-communications-satellites-by-2030/ https://www.satellitetoday.com/mobility/2021/03/31/hanwha-systems-plans-2000-satellite-leo-constellation-for-mobility-applications/

Korea will build a 30,000-ton light aircraft carrier capable of housing more than a dozen F-35B vertical takeoff-and-landing stealth fighter jets. A government source on Monday said Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Park Han-ki and the chiefs of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps in...

As Korean Shipyards Founder, Central Bank Dragged Into Rescue Bid (Reuters, via gCaptain) Thoughts?

Via Slashdot: http://www.techienews.co.uk/9719822/world-war-ii-tech-eloran-deployed-gps-backup-uk/