Korea mulls purchasing F-35 stealth fighter jets

Source URL: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/11/01/200611010052.asp
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/2169

The Air Force is considering picking up the newest F-35 stealth fighter jets as its next-generation fighters to beef up the country's air strike capabilities, a top Air Force official said yesterday.

"We are mulling taking F-35 fighter jets as our next fighters," Lt. Gen. Kim Eun-ki, deputy chief of the Air Force, said in a parliamentary audit session. "Currently, orders for F-35s are so enormous that it is hard (for us) to purchase them right now. But because next-generation fighters are planned to be deployed after 2010, we expect the purchase will be possible around then."

Kim's remarks came in reply to a question over the purchase by a ruling Uri Party lawmaker who pointed out F-35s are equipped with stealth devices and its price is only 60 percent of the U.S. Boeing Co.'s F-15Ks.

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