LIG Nex1 is accelerating the event of aviation armament techniques, that are core parts for future Korean fighter plane.
The corporate introduced on Dec. 24 that it has signed a contract for the “Quick-Vary Air-to-Air Guided Missile-II System Growth System Integration and Guided Missile Integration Prototype” venture.
This venture, supervised by the Company for Protection Growth, entails growing short-range air-to-air guided missiles to be mounted on KF-21 fighter plane. The contract quantity is price 207 billion gained, and LIG Nex1 will develop main missile parts together with system integration and guided missile integration, in addition to infrared imaging seekers, steering management gadgets, inertial navigation techniques, and actuators by 2032.
Upon completion of the venture, the KF-21 might be geared up with domestically-produced short-range air-to-air guided missiles following long-range air-to-ground guided missiles, offering air-to-ground and air-to-air assault capabilities primarily based purely on home know-how.
Shin Ik-hyun, CEO of LIG Nex1, acknowledged, “We plan to mobilize our company-wide capabilities to efficiently full the event of the Quick-Vary Air-to-Air Guided Missile-II by way of shut cooperation with the supervising company, the Company for Protection Growth, and associated establishments and corporations,” including, “We’ll make our greatest efforts to reinforce the standing of Okay-defense trade within the world protection market by way of a package deal technique of home fighter plane and home aviation armament techniques.”
