South Korea’s New Chunmoo 3.0 Unifies Loitering-Munition Missile and Coastal Anti-Ship Strike

SEOUL, South Korea: Hanwha Aerospace utilized the opening days of Seoul ADEX 2025 at KINTEX to unveil Chunmoo 3.0, the next iteration of the K239 multicaliber rocket system. Company materials and briefings describe a unified concept that pairs the launcher’s familiar two-pod architecture with a new L-PGW loitering-munition missile and an anti-ship ballistic option, creating a single platform that can locate, identify, and neutralize targets on land or at sea. The loitering-munition carrier as part of an L-PGW100 family for Chunmoo, while earlier disclosures showed the anti-ship ballistic missile concept mated to the K239 for coastal defense. The broader ADEX backdrop underscores the theme, the largest edition to date, with a heavy focus on uncrewed systems and AI-enabled decision support. Read more

The new feature highlighted at ADEX is the integration of a loitering munition launched from a dedicated missile, identified as an L-PGW capability that Hanwha is developing for the Chunmoo family(Picture source: Hanwha)


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