South Korea Introduces First Homegrown Fighter Jet, The KF-21 Borame

In the past, South Korea fully relied on foreign-made fighter jets to meet its defense needs.

That’s about to change as the advanced aviation systems and parts of the KF-21 are developed and produced locally.

The whole process of making South Korea’s first homegrown fighter jet, the KF-21 Borame, from start to finish, including its design to production has been led by local technicians with locally developed technology.

The length of the new fighter jet is nearly 17 meters, its width is around 11 meters and height around five meters all-in-all it’s slightly bigger than the U.S.’s F-16 fighter jets.

With a maximum payload of seven-thousand-700 kilograms, the KF-21 is known to be able to fly 22-hundred kilometers per hour.

Its range is two-thousand-900 kilometers and is equipped with air-to-ship missiles.