Korea Plans to Develop Unmanned Aircraft

Korea Plans to Develop Unmanned Aircraft: "After"years of debate over developing or buying stealth fighter jets, South Korea is turning its eyes toward building an unmanned combat aircraft with foreign partners.As consensus builds that the KF-X project to develop a fifth-generation stealth aircraft is economically and technically nonviable, the head of the Air Force's combat power development bureau has called for a shift in focus.``Developing an F-16-class indigenous fighter is meaningless given changing trends in warfare. Developing a full stealth fighter is also beyond our economic power,'' Brig. Gen. Lee Hee-woo said at an international air power seminar in Seoul late last month.``Now we need a new paradigm of developing and operating both manned and unmanned aircraft suited to future warfare'' and with foreign partners,... [read full story]