Korsel Kembangkan Rudal Anti-Kapal Supersonik

Rudal Yakhont ditembakan dari kapal perang TNI AL. Rudal yang dikembangkan Korsel ukurannya lebih kecil dari Yakhont. (Foto: KOMPAS)

17 Agustus 2011, Seoul (Berita HanKam): Korea Selatan mengembangkan rudal jelajah supersonik yang dapat digunakan menyerang kapal induk, kapal perusak tercanggih.

Rudal dikembangkan oleh Agency for Defense Development (DAPA) diharapkan selesai dalam tiga hingga empat tahun.

Rudal lebih kecil dari rudal buatan Rusia Yakhont, dapat mencapai kecepatan hingga 2,5 March dengan jarak jelajah 250-300 km.

Angkatan Laut Korsel telah mengoperasikan rudal anti-kapal Haesung dengan jarak jelajah 150 km dan rudal buatan Amerika Serikat Harpoon dengan jarak yang sama. Kedua rudal tersebut dapat diintersep oleh rudal anti-pesawat jarak pendek atau senapan mesin karena kecepatannya kurang dari kecepatan suara.

Rudal yang dikembangkan sulit diintersep karena terbang pada kecepatan suara dan hanya beberapa meter diatas permukaan. Rusia telah mengembangkan beberapa varian sebagai respon kekuatan kapal induk Amerika Serikat.

Rudal Korsel yang tengah dikembangkan dapat juga menghacurkan sasaran di darat, termasuk unit pertahanan pantai dan artileri jarak jauh Korea Utara.

Pengembangan rudal ini tidak sekedar menghadapi ancaman Korut, tetapi juga menghadapi kekuatan angkatan laut negara tetangga Korsel lainnya.

Sumber: Chosun Ilbo

Jet Tempur Siluman Rusia Peserta Tender Program FX-III AU Korsel

25 Juli 2011, Moskow (Berita HanKam): Jet tempur generasi kelima Rusia T-50 PAK-FA tercatat menjadi salah satu peserta tender jet tempur untuk Angkatan Udara Korea Selatan.

Korsel akan membeli 60 jet tempur berkemampuan siluman dari pabrik pesawat luar negeri. Pembelian ini diperkirakan menelan anggaran 7,86 milyar dolar dibawah program FX-III.

Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA akan bersaing dengan Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II dan European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) Eurofighter Typhoon.

Pemenang tender diharapkan diumumkan pada 2012, tetapi penyerahan pesawat diharapkan dimulai empat tahun kemudian.

Para ahli pertahanan memperkirakan peluang Sukhoi dan EADS menjadi pemenang tender sangat kecil karena kedekatan Korsel dengan Amerika Serikat menjadi faktor penting dalam kontes ini.

Jet tempur siluman T-50 dikembangkan oleh biro disain Sukhoi dan dibuat di Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Timur Jauh Rusia. Sukhoi dan India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) telah meneken kerja sama pengembangan T-50 senilai 6 milyar dolar.

Sumber: RIA Novosti

Pesawat Angkatan Udara Korsel Jatuh

manufacture: 

Ilyushin

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Il-103

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general aviation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-103

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Seoul (ANTARA News/AFP) - Sebuah pesawat latih militer jatuh di Korea selatan, Selasa, menewaskan seorang instruktur dan seorang siswa, kata seorang juru bicara angkatan udara.

Pesawat bermesin tunggal itu jatuh di ladang padi 1,6 km dekat landas pacu ketika akan mendarat dekat akademi angkatan udara di daerah Cheong, 120 km selatan Seoul, kata juru bicara itu.

Penyelidikan sedang dilakukan menyangkut penyebab kecelakaan itu.

Pesawat Ilyushin II-103 buatan Rusia itu adalah salah satu dari pesawat-pesawat latih yang digunakan angkatan udara Korsel. Korsel menerima 23 pesawat jenis itu dari Rusia pada 2004 sebagai bagian pembayaran pinjaman.(*)

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Militer Korsel Minta Maaf Atas Insiden Penembakan Pesawat Airbus

Senin, 20/06/2011 14:21 WIB

Rita Uli Hutapea - detikNews

Ilustrasi (AFP)

Seoul - Militer Korea Selatan (Korsel) meminta maaf kepada rakyat negeri itu atas insiden penembakan pesawat sipil Airbus pekan lalu. Pesawat penumpang itu ditembaki oleh dua Marinir Korsel yang mengiranya sebagai pesawat perang Korea Utara (Korut).

"Militer meminta maaf dengan tulis kepada rakyat kami karena telah menimbulkan kekhawatiran atas insiden tersebut," ujar juru bicara Kepala Staf Kolonel Lee Bung-woo seperti dilansir kantor berita AFP, Senin (20/6/2011).

Namun Lee menambahkan, kedua Marinir tersebut tak akan dihukum karena mereka telah bertindak sesuai aturan. Bahkan militer akan meningkatkan pelatihan bagi para prajurit di pos-pos penjagaan garis batas sehingga mereka bisa membedakan pesawat sipil dan militer.

Dalam insiden tersebut terjadi pada Jumat, 17 Juni lalu tersebut, para Marinir yang berjaga di sebuah pulau dekat perbatasan Laut Kuning melepaskan tembakan ke pesawat Airbus A321 milik maskapai Asiana Airlines. Saat itu pesawat tersebut tengah melintas di atas lautan dengan diselimuti kabut.

Ketika itu pesawat tengah menurunkan ketinggian karena akan mendarat di Bandara Internasional Incheon. Untunglah, tembakan yang dilepaskan tidak mengenai pesawat.

Dikatakan Lee, dua Marinir tersebut melepaskan total 99 tembakan ke arah pesawat Airbus tersebut selama sekitar empat menit. Keduanya melepas tembakan setelah melapor ke pemimpin pleton mereka mengenai sebuah pesawat yang mereka kira sebagai pesawat militer Korut.

Saat itu pesawat yang mengangkut 119 orang itu tengah menempuh rute normal dari Kota Chengdu, China. Militer Korsel terus bersiaga akan kemungkinan serangan dari Korut di tengah meningkatnya ketegangan lintas perbatasan menyusul dua insiden mematikan di perbatasan tahun lalu.

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South Korea Accelerates Stealth Fighter Program

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 3, 2011:

South Korea is accelerating moves to purchase a high-end fleet of stealth fighter jets to counter North Korea’s asymmetrical threats and keep pace with neighboring countries seeking to secure their own radar-evading combat aircraft.

Under the FX-III acquisition project worth around 10 trillion won ($8.86 billion), the Seoul government is seeking to purchase some 60 next-generation fighters with an aim to have them delivered for operational deployment to begin in 2016.

The government is expected to draw up an acquisition strategy in the first half of this year, start receiving proposals from bidders early next year and determine which jet it will buy as early as August that year, according to Seoul officials.

As the Defense Ministry failed to secure 15.7 billion won, which it wanted to include in this year’s budget to get the acquisition work started, in the face of opposition from the National Assembly and budget authorities, it was expected that the military would not be able to start deploying new warplanes in 2016.

However, the Seoul government has recently begun moving faster to secure stealth fighters as calls have persisted for the military to acquire the strategic precision-guided weaponry that can handle asymmetrical threats from the North.

Along with Japan’s ongoing efforts to develop its own Advanced Technology Demonstrator-X Shinshin stealth fighter, China’s successful test flight on its first stealth jet, the J-20, in January also appears to have prompted Seoul to accelerate its acquisition efforts.

Seoul also believes that the FX-III project should be fast-tracked due to projections that the Air Force may suffer a shortage of fighter jets after the mid-2010s when its aging fighters are due to be decommissioned.

It estimates the Air Force may lack some 100 fighters in the late-2010s. The Air Force believes it needs at least 430 fighter jets of different levels to prepare for possible wartime operations ― some 100 high-end, 200 middle-range and 100 low-end fighters.

The FX-III competition also appears to be in connection with the KF-X project, designed to develop homegrown battle planes that would replace aging F-4 and F-5 fighters.

Observers here say that the Seoul government is likely to see how much a bidder can contribute to the KF-X project in terms of technology transfer during the acquisition process.

Military officials and experts largely agree that stealth fighters should be introduced early as North Korea’s provocations continue to destabilize the security environment on the Korean Peninsula.

Boeing’s F-15 Silent Eagle and Lockheed Martin’s F-35 are being considered as the two most likely candidate fighters for the FX-III project.

F-15 Silent Eagle
In March 2009, Boeing first unveiled the two-seat, two-engine F-15 Silent Eagle with a maximum speed of mach 2.5, which has been being developed based on what it calls “combat-proven” F-15 Eagle.

In its promotion of the Silent Eagle, Boeing has focused on the fighter jet’s overall survivability, cost-effectiveness and “tactically useful” radar cross section reduction, pointing out that it would still retain the F-15’s long-range, large payload capabilities.

Critics here have doubted stealth capabilities of F-15SE, calling it a “semi-stealth jet” ― compared with Lockheed Martin’s F-35 ― as it is being developed on the basis of the non-stealth concept of the fourth-generation fighter jet.

Boeing refused to reveal the level of the RCS reduction on the F-15SE as it is classified information while stressing that it is ready to provide a reasonable level of the RCS reduction that could meet South Korea’s requirements. RCS is a measure of how detectable an object is with radar. A larger RCS indicates that an object is more easily detected.

It, however, remains confident that overall, the F-15SE can offer a good solution for South Korea’s Air Force, citing a series of factors including its interoperability with the existing F-15K fighter jets run by South Korea’s Air Force.

“With a balanced approach to survivability, the F-15SE takes a low risk, cost effective approach to securing the national interest of our customers with advanced AESA (active electronically scanned array) radar, an advanced electronic warfare system, tactfully useful radar cross section reduction,” Brad Jones, director of Boeing’s F-15 Development Programs, told The Korea Herald.

Jones pointed out that one of the most important attributes of the F-15SE is “mission flexibility” which ensures the cost effectiveness of the fighter jet.

“Being able to perform air superiority, air-to-ground, deep penetration, maritime and remote island defense missions with a single platform provides a nation with the most cost effective solution to protect their national security,” he said.

“If you include the fact the F-15SE is more than 85 percent common with the existing F-15K Slam Eagle fleet, Korea will be able to greatly reduce their operational and support cost over the projected 30 year service life. No one else in the world can offer such a cost effective solution with this type of proven, superior operational capability.”

To a question of whether it can meet Korea’s anticipated delivery timeline, Jones said, “Boeing is committed to providing an operational capable F-15 Silent Eagle to the Republic of Korea when they need it for their force structure needs.”

Boeing explains that for a mission that requires a stealth capability, the F-15SE could carry a 2,700-pound internal payload for 800 nautical miles in an air-to-ground configuration or 720 nautical miles in an air-to-air configuration.

Its conformal weapons bay could accommodate various mixtures of weapons systems ― two Sidewinder missiles and two Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles; or four AMRAAMs; or an air-to-air and air-to-ground mix of two AMRAAMs and two 1,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs; or eight 250-pound Small Diameter Bombs.

If a mission did not require stealth, the F-15 Silent Eagle could be reconfigured for missions that required more payloads over a longer mission range. Removing the weapons bays would enable F-15SE to have a 29,500-pound payload for missions in the 1,000-nautical mile range in an air-to-ground configuration and 900 nautical miles in an air-to-air configuration.

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II
A set of issues over rising costs and delays in the development of the F-35 fighter jet has apparently sapped confidence in the massive multinational program for the new radar-evading fighter that involve nine countries including the U.S.

Struggling to overcome such challenges, Lockheed Martin, which is spearheading the F-35 project, has been highlighting the fighter’s stealth capability that is believed to be better than those of other competitors.

Randy Howard, Lockheed Martin’s director of Korea F-35 Campaign, stressed that the F-35 is the “only true, all-aspect stealthy fifth-generation” fighter available on the international market while categorizing the F-15SE as a forth-generation jet.

“The F-35 redefines multi-role fighter aircraft performance and provides a quantum leap in capability over the fourth generation aircraft including the F-15SE which is based upon a design that dates to 1968,” he told The Korea Herald.

“True stealth must be designed from the ground up. It cannot be retrofitted. The F-35 achieves its Very Low Observable performance through its fundamental design, its external shape, and its state of the art manufacturing processes which control tolerances to less than half the diameter of a human hair.”

The F-35 has been co-developed with eight foreign partners ― Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway ― since 2001. The U.S., along with the eight countries, has invested some $50 billion for the F-35 project.

The single-seat, single-engine F-35 jet with a maximum speed of mach 1.8 has three different variants.

The conventional takeoff and landing F-35A is for air force operations, while the F-35B is the Marine Corps’ short take-off and vertical landing variant and the F-35C is the Navy’s carrier based version.

While the development of the two variants has been properly proceeding, the Marine Corps’ variant is experiencing significant testing problems stemming from software development issues, according to reports.

Given their budget constraints, the growing price of the F-35 is also burdensome for many countries. It is widely believed that the price of the F-35 per unit may double the original price of about $50 million ― set in 2001.

Criticism has surfaced here that the increase of the per-unit price runs counter to the development purpose of the F-35 ― producing a less costly stealth fighter for overseas customers as the F-22 Raptor, the top U.S. air superiority fighter, is barred by law from export until 2015 to protect its stealth technology.

Other than the price issues, another concern here is whether South Korea can acquire it at a time it needs the fighter since it is not part of the multinational JSF project.

Howard said that the F-35A will be available to South Korea with deliveries beginning in 2016, noting that F-35A’s System Development and Demonstration program, which includes developmental flight tests, is scheduled to complete in early 2016.

Regarding the increasing development costs, Howard said that as production quantities continue to increase, the production price will subsequently decrease.

“Cost increases to date have been predominantly associated with the development phase of the program. The U.S. government has borne the entire financial responsibility of these developmental cost increases and has not passed them along to participating countries,” he said.

“As production quantities continue to increase, the recurring production price will continue down that cost curve. Lockheed Martin expects the average unit recurring cost of an F-35A to be approximately $65 million in 2010 year economics.”

Howard also claimed that all issues with the development of the F-35 have proven to be “solvable.”

“The fundamental design and the software are sound ― there are no technical limitations,” he said.

By Song Sang-ho (sshluck@heraldm.com)

 

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