South Korea’s LIG Nex1 has secured two contracts worth a combined $1.19 billion to develop an integrated electronic‑warfare system for the national combat aircraft programme and to build a prototype short‑range air‑to‑air missile for the KF‑21 fighter.
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The $1.19 billion combined award underscores Seoul’s accelerating investment in indigenous weapons and avionics to equip the KF‑21 and related programmes; see recent South Korean missile and air‑defence procurement activity like the Hanwha L‑SAM contract (KRW 705.4bn).
The contracts pair offensive (short‑range AAM) and defensive (EW suite) capabilities, reflecting the broader push to field integrated survivability packages seen in other programmes, for example the rapid fielding of the ALQ‑257 EW suite to legacy fighters.
A major domestic contractor securing this scale of work has implications for local supply chains, industrial base sustainment and potential exportability of Korean combat aircraft systems; earlier Korean tactical missile and systems wins illustrate that momentum.
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• Greg Waldron