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Ear­li­er this month, Korea Aero­space Indus­tries (KAI) announced plans to unveil a pro­to­type of South Korea’s first indige­nous fight­er jet in April. KAI is set to roll out the first of its next-gen­er­a­tion com­bat air­craft, which is bet­ter known as the Kore­an Fight­er eXper­i­men­tal (KF‑X).
Work began on the KF‑X pro­gram in 2015, and the future fight­er will replace the Kore­an Air Force’s aging fleet of F‑4 and F‑5 jets. Accord­ing to reports from Defence-Blog, the KAI-designed KF‑X would be a gen­er­a­tion four-plus jet, but it could be mar­ket­ed as a cost-effec­tive alter­na­tive to fifth-gen­er­a­tion fight­ers such as the …