Recently, according to Korean media reports, South Korea's self-developed MUAV long-haul inspection and unmanned aerial vehicles carried out flight tests, which attracted the attention of many military experts and the media. So, what is the current development of Korean drones?
Introducing imitation up-and-coming
In recent years, China's drone industry has developed rapidly, and drones in countries such as the United States and Israel have received much attention. Korean drones rarely appear in domestic media.
At present, there are two well-established defense companies in South Korea that are focusing on the development of a new generation of drones, namely Korean Airways and Korea Aviation Industry Corporation.
South Korea is ambitious in the development of the military drone industry. According to the unmanned aerial vehicle development strategy plan previously promulgated by the Korean Ministry of National Defense, South Korea will build a near-, medium-, and long-range tactical and strategic drone force by 2020 to cope with the various military forces currently facing it. Threat.
In fact, the development of Korean drones is similar to the development of weapons and equipment in many countries, from introduction, digestion, absorption, to innovation. It has introduced and assembled a number of advanced tactical drones from the developed countries such as the United States and Israel, and actively absorbed their advanced technologies, and gradually developed several types of drones with their own characteristics.
In addition to South Korea's announced MUAV drone is similar to the US Death Detective Integrated UAV, the Korean eagle UAV is also very similar in appearance and performance to the US Army's Shadow-400 UAV.
In addition, the Night Invaders 300 small drones that the Korean Army has been equipped since 2004 are also based on the technology of the Israeli Skylark reconnaissance drone and Habib anti-radiation drone.
Things merge and catch up
In 2017, at the International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition held in Seoul, South Korea, a series of drones displayed by Korea Aviation Industry Corporation can be seen that the UAVs currently developed in Korea involve unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned attack aircraft. , unmanned helicopters and unmanned tilting rotors.
It can be seen that the Korean aviation industry department is seriously lagging behind in the KF-X stealth fighter program, and it is unable to spend a lot of energy on the drone in the case of progress in the manned machine field. It is expected to find a piece in the field of drones. It belongs to the world of Korea.
South Korea has made great efforts in introducing technology integration. From the military aircraft disclosed in recent years, it can be seen that there is a shadow of American drones. For example, the VARS tilting rotorcraft developed in Korea draws on the technology of the US V-22 Osprey tilting rotorcraft. The VARS drone has a take-off weight of 25 kg and can be installed with an independently developed photoelectric reconnaissance system with a maximum flight speed of 150 km/h and a battery life of 1.5 hours.
Its Army-equipped KUS-FT fixed-wing tactical drone also has the distinctive taste of localization and innovation of external technology. The drone has less data disclosure, only knows that the length of the aircraft is 3.4 meters, the wingspan is 4.2 meters, and the maximum takeoff weight is 150 kilograms.
Independent innovation strives for cutting-edge
In recent years, South Korea's drones rely on the US's technology output, and under the guidance of the Ministry of Defense's strategic plan, its development strength has made great progress, and gradually paced the world in platform design and task load selection.
It can be seen from the MUAV drone that the UAV uses a self-developed electro-optical/infrared system and is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar capable of 24 hours of uninterrupted ground target at a height of 15 km from the ground. Reconnaissance, the airborne radar has a detection radius of 200 kilometers. It can be loaded with multiple air-to-ground missiles under the wing, and it has the rank of the world's unmanned aerial vehicles.
However, South Korea’s military capabilities cannot be analyzed and studied separately. Reconnaissance and surveillance of the enemy is mainly dependent on the United States. On the one hand, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense purchased the RQ-4 Global Hawk strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft from the United States. On the other hand, it accepted the US permanent deployment of the MQ-1C Grey Eagle in the South Korea. It is not possible to look at several independently developed models. The drone will determine its combat strength.
At the same time, the MUAV drone with piston engine has a slower flight speed, and it has poor adaptability to high-intensity battlefields, and more is used as anti-terrorism and low-intensity warfare. Therefore, the significance of UAVs such as MUAV to South Korea is to minimize the gap between the world's advanced level and the dependence on the US military. It is also only a node on the road of Korean drone development.
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