South Korea’s KF-21 Completes First Flight

Kim Minseok Chen Chuanren July 19, 2022
KF-21
The KF-21 gets airborne for the first time.
Credit: ROKAF
SEOUL, SINGAPORE—South Korea’s latest fighter project, the Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21 Boramae, completed its first flight on the afternoon of July 19. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said the KF-21 took off at the Third Flying Training Wing of the Air Force in...
Kim Minseok

Kim Minseok covers South Korean defense. He has worked as a journalist for South Korean military magazines Military Review and Defense Times. Mr Kim is also a research fellow at the Korea Defense and Security Forum, a think tank.

Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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