Korea Aerospace Industries Achieves Key Milestone in Fighter Development

South Korea has completed the KF-21 flight test program, marking a key milestone in the development of its indigenous fighter jet. The program successfully completed approximately 1,600 flight tests over a 42-month period without accident, verifying the aircraft’s flight stability and performance. According to Breaking Defense, DAPA will now move on to completing the system development program in the first half of this year, with plans for KAI to start deliveries of production aircraft to the ROKAF in the second half of the year.