{"id":195390,"date":"2008-07-12T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/12\/saab-offers-supercruising-stealth-to-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T10:24:00","slug":"saab-offers-supercruising-stealth-to-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/12\/saab-offers-supercruising-stealth-to-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Saab Offers Supercruising Stealth to South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ROK (South Korea) is looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-07-07&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/07\/07\/AW_07_07_2008_p32-63963.xml&amp;headline=Saab+Offers+Supercruising+Stealth+to+South+Korea\">fielding its own advanced combat aircraft<\/a> (<em>Paid Subscription Required<\/em>), EADS is pushing a Typhoon pushed somewhere past tranche 3, and SAAB is pushing a new stealth supercruiser, Boeing is pitching a significantly updated F-15, while Lockheed-Martin is pitching the F-35.<\/p>\n<p>This is in parallel to the (IMHO overambitious) indiginous KFX stealth fighter program.<\/p>\n<p>SAAB is proposing both a one and a two engine variant.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, the only two I see likely are the F-35 and Boeing&#8217;s proposal.  The former because it is the 800 lb gorilla in the room, and the latter because they are currently taking shipments of the F-15K.<\/p>\n<p>Note that in the competition that selected the F-15K, the Rafale was widely rumored to have won, but the fact that it was not a US product led to the selection of the Eagle.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/324486471.jpg\" \/><br \/>Boeing Proposal<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/324486464.jpg\" \/><br \/>SAAB&#8217;s P106 Supercruiser<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ROK (South Korea) is looking at fielding its own advanced combat aircraft (Paid Subscription Required), EADS is pushing a Typhoon pushed somewhere past tranche 3, and SAAB is pushing a new stealth supercruiser, Boeing is pitching a significantly updated F-15, while Lockheed-Martin is pitching the F-35. This is in parallel to the (IMHO overambitious) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1120,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-far-east","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}