The U.S. State Department on Wednesday approved a $5 billion sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to South Korea.
the acquisition process over a year ago, in July 2022. Delivery of the planes and parts is not expected to be complete until 2028.
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, from right, U.S. President Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president, at a news conference during a trilateral summit at Camp David, Maryland, US, on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Seoul is also keenly interested in improving its drone capabilities, especially after an embarrassing incident in December 2022 when a swarm of North Korean drones flew across the border and even threatened Seoul’s airspace, sowing confusion among South Korean defense forces.
Turkey is an enthusiastic customer of South Korean tanks and artillery, and in turn it can offer the world’s hottest UAV product, the Bayraktar TB-2 combat drone. Turkey’s drones turned heads around the world after Ukraine500th Bayraktar TB2, Kizilelma, Bayraktar TB3 UAV and Bayraktar Akinci are seen during a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey on June 23, 2023. a new unit called the Drone Operations Command.
Drone Operations Command officials told South Korean media their plan is to overwhelm North Korean incursions by “outnumbering them more than ten to one,” an objective that requires the combination of performance and low cost that Turkey’s Baykar corporation has developed a reputation for providing.
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