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The Korean Air Force will take delivery of Boeing¡¯s latest fighter next month after the F-15K passed 15 months of test flights. It will make its debut at the Seoul Air Show.
Boeing¡¯s PR firm News Communications said Wednesday the F-15K cleared the rigorous trial period and four pilots and four weapons systems experts from the ROK Air Force traveled to the U.S. and completed the required training on the new fighters. The eight men were trained at Lackland Air Force base in Texas and Seymour Johnson base in North Carolina.
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A Boeing F-15K is unveiled at a rollout ceremony at the Boeing plant in St Louis. Missouri on March 18. The F-15K is armed with latest military technologies including state-of-the-art radar, AIM-9X sidewinder missile, Harpoon Block II missile and standoff land attack missile-expanded response (SLAM-ER) and tipped as one of the world's most formidable fighter planes. A total of 40 F-15Ks are to be delivered to the Korean Air Force by 2008.
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It quoted Ed Wilson, a flight instructor for the F-15E, as saying the aircraft was a multi-role fighter that comes with infrared targeting and cueing system. It can carry up to 10.4 tons of ¡°smart¡± weaponry including GPS-guided all-weather joint direct attack missiles, deep penetrating bunker-busting guided bomb units, air-to-air missiles and air-to-sea Harpoon missiles and others. Even with all this hardware on board, it is still capable of doing Mach 2.3, the firm said.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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