South Korea plans to conduct its first missile defense drill in the first half of next year to test the effectiveness of locally developed defense programs in the face of North Korea’s missile and nuclear threats, as reported by the Korea Herald on Monday, December 29. South Korea has been developing its own Kill-Chain and […]

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, has been awarded a $657,400,000 hybrid contract including firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract action for aircraft for the Republic of Korea. Contractor will provide four RQ-4B Block 30 Global Hawk air vehicles, two spare engines, and the applicable Ground Control Environment elements. Each will contain an Enhanced […]

A South Korean company is poised to export domestically-developed self-propelled howitzers to Poland. An official of the South Korean military said Thursday that Samsung Techwin is scheduled to sign a contract with Poland this month to export the 120 K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers to the East European country. The official said, however, the K9 Thunder […]

RoK Marines launching Spike anti-tank/vessel missiles to sea & A side-note on repulsing an amphibious assault. Spike is an Israeli fourth generation fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charged HEAT warhead, developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and in service with a number of nations. A South […]