{"id":127297,"date":"2021-09-05T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/south-korea-launches-first-homegrown-supersonic-jet-fighter"},"modified":"2021-09-05T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:26:05","slug":"south-korea-launches-first-homegrown-supersonic-jet-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/south-korea-launches-first-homegrown-supersonic-jet-fighter","title":{"rendered":"South Korea launches first homegrown supersonic jet fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-korea-launches-first-homegrown-supersonic-jet-fighter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the final tests are completed in the future, South Korea will become the eighth country in the world that has developed an advanced supersonic fighter,\u201d a government statement said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>South Korea unveiled its homegrown supersonic jet fighter on Friday, joining an exclusive club of military aviation giants and setting the stage for a $5.2 billion program it hopes will be a top export driver and jobs creator.<\/p>\n<p>Once operational, the KF-21 jet is expected to be armed with a range of air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles \u2014 and possibly even air-launched cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The twin-engine fighters will come in single-and two-seat versions, depending on the missions to which they are tasked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen the final tests are completed in the future, South Korea will become the eighth country in the world that has developed an advanced supersonic fighter,\u201d a government statement said. South Korea unveiled its homegrown supersonic jet fighter on Friday, joining an exclusive club of military aviation giants and setting the stage for a $5.2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}