> SK evaluation of 20 F35Cs purchase changed to 20 F35As
> 30,000 ton light aircraft carrier not included in 2023 budget
> For the 2023 budget only evaluation funds were allocated to the CVX program
> KAI announces carrier version of the KF21 development
> SK government and military now planning 60,000+ ton medium aircraft carrier
South Korea gets out of buying F35Cs (F35As are far superior) and no longer wasting money on a useless 30,000 ton LIGHT aircraft carrier
Now invests in the KF21 catobar or stobar version + getting a 60,000+ ton MEDIUM aircraft carrier that is actually useable
Sounds like this could have been planned from the outset
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/09/south-korea-considers-larger-aircraft-carrier-procurement/
Were they ever considering the F-35C? I had only heard plans for the F-35B.
SK was considering both but really only wanted the F35A
Impressive.
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SK wiener mogs most of western Europe, not to mention 80%+ of SK males are circumcised which takes away 1+cm
https://www.worlddata.info/average-penissize.php
>Self reported
In other words the asiatics were tearing their dicks with vices and measuring them wrong.
korea, you need to stop this. an aircraft carrier is a bad idea already
Full sized aircraft carriers
Nuclear submarines
Fusion nuclear reactors
Korean domination continues
still relying on help from pastaland or 100% on their own this time?
>60,000+ ton MEDIUM aircraft carrier that is actually useable
Is it tho?
The 110,000 tonne displacement of the Ford class isn't "make it as big as possible." It's essentially the equivalent of an interwar fleet carrier (~20,000tonnes) in terms of planes carried (~90), just back then a naval aircraft weighed 2-5 tonnes where today they weigh 15-20 tonnes.
So what does a "medium" carrier do that a "light" carrier doesn't? Seems to me they'd be better off with something like an enlarged Wasp class amphibious ship with jump jet capability unless it's just a stepping stone to a full carrier like the Chinese did.
The idea that they'll have a carrier catapult launched KF-21 anytime in the next 15-20 years is a joke.
Catapults aren't complicated. It's 15-20 years no matter what they do.
The Chinese managed catobar in like 10 years from go to woah.
This, ILMs are used on fricking roller coaster all the time it's not advanced tech anymore.
SK already has amphibious ships with landing pads
QE class is 72,000 tons
Charles de Gaulle is 42,500 tons
The SK aircraft carrier will be in the 60,000 to 70,000 ton range
Anything above 40,000 but less than 80,000 is a medium aircraft carrier
>SK already has amphibious ships with landing pads
But not jump jet capability.
>QE class is 72,000 tons
>Charles de Gaulle is 42,500 tons
And too small to do what they need to do, yet too big to be a low cost option.
Americans love to bang on about "supercarriers" but in reality the Ford class are just fleet carriers.
So I ask again, what's the point to a "medium" carrier?
The medium carrier only makes sense if the KF21 carrier based version becomes operational in earnest
This is probably the biggest indicator that this is going to happen as South Korean business is closely tied to both politics and even the military industrial complex, KAI announced last week that they are moving forward with carrier versions of the KF21 followed this week by the medium carrier announcement by the SK government and military
An entire model of fighter that exists specifically for one bote seems kind of crazy in and of itself
If they had plans to build 3-5 carriers it might make sense.
But just 1 or 2 boats is ~40-80 aircraft which doesn't seem worthwhile to develop an entire carrier-launched version of the plane when you have ZERO other prospective customers.
At least the US with the F-35C has 10+ catapult carriers to play with.
In reality the South Korean medium aircraft carrier will probably spend most of the time patrolling key shipping lanes particularly in the Indian Ocean where pirate activity remains an issue and then if a war breaks out the CVX group can redeploy to waters closer to the Korean peninsula, SK already among the most active in anti-piracy operations so a medium aircraft carrier has an immediate role
But again, why the frick wouldn't you just buy F-35Bs?
Just build a slightly larger helicopter carrier than your current ones and you've essentially got the same thing as the Japanese with the Izumo being modified for the F-35B.
If you did that you'd have medium aircraft carriers operating by 2030-2035.
With a domestic catapult carrier AND a carrier launched KF-21 you're looking at MAYBE 2040, and probably closer to 2045.
A few reasons:
1. F35A is $65 million per unit. F35B is $100+ million per unit. F35C is $95 million per unit. Despite the cost difference the F35A is by far the most capable fighter. A few compartisons:
F35A 18000lb payload, 1200 nmi range, max thrust/weight 1.07, g limit 9.0
F35B 15000lb payload, 900 nmi range, max thrust/weight 1.04, g limit 7.0
F35C 18000lb payload, 1200 nmi range, max thrust/weight 0.91, g limit 7.5
2. South Korea has a culture of valuing domestically made products over non-SK made, its not just a sense of national pride either, there is a perception that quality is better if SK made.
3. Most importantly, they can export to other countries hence Military Industrial Complex.
But again, the KF-21 relies on the Western MIC for half of their systems, it's hardly wholly domestically produced.
And again, for actual defense purposes it's moronic to opt for a semi-domestic fighter/air craft carrier that will take 15-20 years or more to actually happen.
>But again, the KF-21 relies on the Western MIC for half of their systems, it's hardly wholly domestically produced.
Wot? Only the engines and some other niche stuffs like ejection seats are imported, the rest are of Korean origin.
>And again, for actual defense purposes it's moronic to opt for a semi-domestic fighter/air craft carrier that will take 15-20 years or more to actually happen.
Brazil is also building a full fledged catapult carrier at the moment. You don't have to be the best in technology to be able to build one.
>some other niche stuffs
lol, more than "just" the ejection seats. Things like the AESA radar, the TA/TO system, and other VITAL avionics.
>TA/TO
TF/TA
not sure how my autocorrect did that.
Elbit Systems was contracted by Hanwha Systems to provide terrain-following/terrain avoidance (TF/TA) systems for the aircraft.[76][77]
>contracted
Interesting, because it's been described as 'localized' according to the gov sources, so Hanwha probably bought out the technology. Also, SK already has a terrain reading method on its Hyunmoo-III cruise missile.
>1200 nmi range
Fricking pathetic. God that program was dumb. Lets take the F-16 and make it slower so it's less useful as an interceptor in Europe, that way it can also suck in the Pacific.
>but muh radar and avionics
Yeah that's what everyone is actually buying because the airframe isn't worth a damn. We've just paid the R&D costs of the actually useful plane that will replace the F-35, but we still have to pay for that too.
Not really, if it's a SK CATOBAR carrier then the SK F/A-18E/F won't take a lot of modification to operate from it.
Maybe unless there are plans to export both as well...
Wonder if USN would sell them a Ford class
lol no
They're probably looking to do this 60,000 ton carrier for ~$2-5B
A GRF-Class carrier is ~$12-13B
They wouldn't buy it. Worst Korea is fricking obsessed with their shipbuilding industry. They might by the design, but how much of that would the US actually be willing to sell?
They're already selling marine nuclear technology to Australia for submarines as a "special exception" because "It's Australia." If they do it again the whole world is going to be lined up for American nuclear secrets and asking "why not us" to which the only answer is "we just don't like you as much," which would be a diplomatic disaster.
The three largest shipbuilding companies are South Korean, over $50 billion in revenue annually
US is giving nuclear tech to Australia because its to counter the China influence, there is a proxy soft war going on in Australia and Australia is increasingly being pulled towards China, the nukes are a signal to China that Australia is willing to do business with China but not in their strategic sphere of influence
Also, if a war with US - China ever breaks out, Australia would provide critical support to US + South Korea + Japan, that's basically it in the entire Pacific, although Taiwan politically is pro-US economically they are 99% China not to mention many of their elite businesspeople have close business and family ties with CCP members, Taiwan actually getting actively involved in a war against China is highly unlikely, all this saber rattling by China going on now is directed at the US not Taiwan
Most critically the US has provided key nuclear sub tech that will help SK fast track nuclear submarine development
Post WW2, the countries that have provided the most combat troop support to the US are South Korea (500,000 combat troops, excluding the Korean War) and Australia (100,000 combat troops), Japan has not provided any but in a large scale war between the US and China its inevitable that Japan will have to get involved
>ignoring Flips, Vietnam, Indo and a half-dozen other nations
>there is a proxy soft war going on in Australia and Australia is increasingly being pulled towards China,
Youre moronic
>the nukes are a signal to China that Australia is willing to do business with China but not in their strategic sphere of influence
Youre not that moronic
BEST case the US might sell/give them CVN-70/71 when they get decommissioned in the 2032-2036 timeframe. But even that would require billions of dollars to maintain and operate and it probably wouldn't really be worth it in the long run unless they plan on building a domestic carrier in the 2050s and want to use the old Nimitz as a learning experience for 10-20 years before having your own domestic carrier.
But in any case, I really doubt they end up with any US carrier, Nimitz or GRF-class.
If it doesn't blare this the day it's launched I'm going to be pissed
Oh god yes.
But where exactly do the asiatics want to project power??
Pyongyang
Mumbai ya frick.
>ramp cope
Why.
Why? Honestly Sorks are moronic, this has no use and is just a braindead vanity project.
The same reason why other countries have medium aircraft carriers
Ask yourself why the UK and France have medium aircraft carriers and the answer will essentially be the same
>Ask yourself why the UK and France have medium aircraft carriers and the answer will essentially be the same
You are utterly fricking braindead. How can you even compare these countries at all?
Very similar populations and GDPs?
Utterly moronic, first all that makes no sense. Secondly if militaries worked like that it doesn't change that SK's economy, 1.8tn, is half the size of the UK's economy, 3.3tn.
The UK has 67 million and growing by 500,000+ every year due to immigration from third world countries, the UN estimates that the UK will have a greater population than Germany in the next few decades with more than half as non-natives (ie., no ancestors that were UK 100+ years ago)
South Korea has 50 million and is shrinking by ~500,000 per year and the UN estimates that they will stabilize around 25 to 30 million people but SK is increasingly becoming the only hyper-developed nation pulling away from lesser developed nations such as Japan and Germany, countries like the UK and France are a tier below even Japan and Germany who are effectively a tier below South Korea now
UK has almost 69 million people, in the next few years they will be a majority third world origin brown nation
Your a fricking moron.
SK has a higher average iq and as a result has greater ambitions + notions of where they should be + have three nuclear weapons adversaries as neighbors
So if the UK and France believe an aircraft carrier is worthwhile, multiply that by a factor of 100x and then you can appreciate why SK has the second most powerful military industrial complex in the world, not Russia, not China, South Korea
How would this serve SK domestic defence at all? Or is this meant for expeditionary use e.g. as a counter to China in the South China Sea area? Or maybe they just think India will buy a couple and it's a money maker?
Global military power + export to allies, simple as moron
>ramp
>South Korea gets out of buying F35Cs (F35As are far superior)
Wait, what? Why are they better?
There are performance tradeoffs made to make it be able to handle the forces involved in a catapult assisted take-off and an arrested landing. I believe the F-35C also has larger wings to provide more lift to assist in lower speed landings and faster altitude gain at lower speeds for take off.
But yeah, F-35B also has performance trade-offs to fit the STOVL engine differences into the airframe.
The F-35A is the "full" F-35 with the most performance. The trade off obviously being it can't do STOVL, and it can't take off/land on a carrier.
Hey, armatard — I assume it’s you at this point — why hasn’t Korea been on a single freedom of navigation op? It’s really hard to take anything they do seriously in the naval sphere if they can’t even do that.
Why the frick they need a CV? France, Britain, Russia , China and even fricking India have good reason. S. asiatic literally have no good reason. Are trying to attack Japan or something?
Literally because japan does. But since japan converted their helicopter carriers for the F-35B SK wants to prove they're better by going with a CATOBAR carrier AND a domestic carrier launched fighter.
Silly japan has to have inferior converted carriers for their dumb American STOVL jets while glorious korea has true naval power of a domestic carrier and domestic fighter that is catapult launched not dumb American fat hover jet
List reasons why France, Britain, Russia, China, India need a CV?
SK are a superior nation to all and will impose their national will on these monkey races
I can part understand why Russia wants CVs but China, Britain and France are military untermensch tier countries that were getting completely mogged in combat with horedenous killed ratios (except the French since they surrendered immediately at the initial signs of war and spread cheeks) and only the US and Russia saved their asses
Its a travesty that the monkey races of the Brits, French and Chinese are part of the permanent UN security council, there are 50+ countries that could conquer each of these counties 1v1 without US in their corner