Parrying Pyongyang

摘要

South Korea will import more than 100 air-launched cruise missiles to arm its force of F-15K strike fighters as a counter to North Korean ballistic missiles.Contenders are likely to be the AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (Jassm) from Lockheed Martin and the Taurus KEPD 350 from LFK and Saab Bofors Dynamics.MBDA, which makes the Storm Shadow/Scalp family, may not bid to avoid duplication of marketing efforts, since it owns the German company LFK, also known as MBDA Germany. The Defense Acquisition Program Committee chaired by the defense minister approved the basic procurement plan for air-to-ground missiles at the same time it agreed to buy 21 more F-15Ks to complement 40 already acquired. One crashed in 2006.