Aviation International News:

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) will spend KRW46 billion ($41 million) to develop a new series of long-range air defense radars, to be developed by LIG Nex1. The system is expected to enter service by 2027, and is aimed to cover the Korean air defense identification zone (KADIZ).

Korean media has quoted DAPA as saying that the need to speed up radar development was spurred by Russian and Chinese aircraft incursion in more than 150 instances between October 2018 and September 2020. The new radar will replace older U.S.-made systems, in this case the Lockheed Martin TPY-77. DAPA also said that the current program will pick up from an earlier plan to develop an indigenous long-range radar that was abandoned in 2017 due to a lack of the requisite technology…

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