Posted on 10/22/2015 5:42:26 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- The military is reviewing whether it is possible to arm its FA-50 light combat fighters with a new variant of the Taurus air-to-surface missile to enhance combat capabilities, a military official said Thursday.
Europe-based Taurus Systems is now developing a new version of the Taurus missile, numbered 350K-2, for possible use for the Air Force and the Army, the official said.
The target specifications for the new variant under development are a range of 400 kilometers and a cruise speed of Mach 0.6~0.9, according to the official.
The original version, the Taurus KEPD 350, has a range in excess of 500 km.
The new missile may also be fit to equip the Air Force's main fleet of F-15K's and KF-16s.
"If the FA-50s are armed with mid-range Taurus missiles, it will enhance their combat power as well as exportability," another official said.
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Thank you for your posts.
Always informative.
I look forward to reading them.
I like the add-on booster that appears to just reach up and attach to the wing/hardpoint mounting hardware. That's a clever idea to (re) use the same missile from two vastly different launch platforms.
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