South Korea will develop stealth Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle

South Korea  will develop stealth Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle

This project is a subscale aircraft, K-UCAV which was funded by Korea Aerospae Indeustries(KAI) to conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, including suppression of enemy air defenses.

The plane is 20% scale-down model of the K-UCAV that it has built to validate the aerodynamic aspects of its design.The main wing is the type of low-wing with sweepback angle and taper and tail wing is the V-tail type.

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