FILE PHOTO: A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II participates in a training mission near Kunsan Air Base in South Korea on December 1, 2017. © Reuters / US Air Force / Josh Rosales
Charlie Gao, The National Interest: Does North Korea Have Any Chance of Killing an F-35?
Does North Korea Have Any Chance of Killing an F-35?
The ROKAF, South Korea’s Air Force received their first F-35A fighter jets in April 2019. The ROKAF hopes to eventually buy forty F-35As and should have ten F-35As by the end of the year.
But how do these aircraft fit into the ROKAF’s existing fleet of aircraft? What role could they play in countering the North Korean KPAF?
The ROKAF already fields a variety of advanced American fighters, including over one hundred KF-16Cs and around 60 F-15K Slam Eagles. The KF-16C is fully integrated with the American AMRAAM air-to-air missile, which the ROKAF fields in the AIM-120C-5 and AIM-120C-7 variants.
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WNU Editor: The North Koreans are not happy with the South Koreans getting some F-35s .... ‘Direct challenge to peace efforts’: Pyongyang slams Seoul for deploying F-35 jets (RT).
