Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, command flight aboard KF-21… “Suppress the enemy based on overwhelming air power”

Visit the missile space surveillance unit and check KAMD operational readiness

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Hyo-jeong = The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on the 11th that Chairman Jin Young-seung of the Joint Chiefs of Staff conducted a command flight aboard the KF-21 Boramae, a supersonic fighter developed with domestic technology.

On this day, Chairman Jin, a former Air Force fighter pilot, inspected the airspace defense posture at the Central Region Combat Wing and personally inspected the completeness and operational performance by boarding the KF-21 and conducting a command flight.

After the command flight, he instructed the pilots to "suppress the enemy based on overwhelming air power and have the readiness and ability to immediately sortie and respond when a situation arises."

He also asked people to "maintain pride and responsibility in being the first to deploy and operate the KF-21, which is a symbol of independent national defense and will become the core force of our military in the future."

The KF-21, whose development was finally completed in June of this year, is being introduced to the Air Force sequentially, starting with the first mass-produced aircraft being introduced to the Air Force's 16th Fighter Wing (Yecheon Base) in September.

On this day, Chairman Jin also confirmed the real-time operational posture of the Korean Missile Defense System (KAMD) at the Missile Space Surveillance Unit, which performs ballistic missile surveillance missions.

He said, "This is the place where the enemy's missile provocations are first detected, and this is where the missile defense operation begins." He instructed, "Quickly detect and spread any type of enemy missile and maintain an early warning posture 24 hours a day."