Korean Air is the national airline of South Korea. But they also have subsidiaries that develop their own drones. This week Korean Air has won a contract to develop an escort drone that can operate with the KAI KF-21 Boramae fighter jet.
The concept of this escort drone is similar to Loyal Wingman developed by Australia and Skyborg by the United States. The locally made 4.5 generation KF-21 combat aircraft will be the carrier aircraft as it shares information with 3 or 4 escort drones with the ability to be difficult to detect by radar.
Drones can then be directed to enter enemy airspace to conduct reconnaissance or attack without a manned aircraft facing enemy defense systems.
Although the KF-21 was built in cooperation with Indonesia, at the time the drone system was only designed for use by the South Korean military.
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