Saturday, November 3, 2012

South Korea Is Hesitating To Buy The F-35

An F-35C Lightning II, marked CF-1, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay. Wikipedia

A ‘Stealth’ Showdown In South Korea -- The Diplomat

The F-35 should be the only game in town to build 60 new fighter aircraft for South Korea. Instead, its turned into a three-way race.

The FX-III competition to provide South Korea with 60 new fighter aircraft is being decided at a transitional moment in the history of manned fighters.

On one side sits the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin’s winning design for the U.S. and UK’s future multi-role fighter requirement. It’s the F-22’s single-engine little brother: a stealthy platform built for strike and air defense, laden with sensors and the epitome of modern, network-centric warfare. It’s also delayed, over-budget and has the unwanted distinction of being known as the trillion-dollar plane.

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My Comment: I guess the South Koreans do not like the price for the F-35, and what they are getting for it. But .... I am still predicting that they will buy the F-35 to counter China's growing aviation fighter fleet.

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