ROKAF
KT-1 (Basic) -> T-50 (Advanced) -> TA-50 (LIFT) -> fighter

You are still confused. An airframe is not designed for sustained g-load, it is designed for the limit load factor of +8g. The sustained load can be whatever it needs to be – it is irrelevant.

3. Sustained load is not meaningless, it is a key air combat capability parameter. It is useful to know if you want to realistically train for air combat.

So limit load is how strong the airframe is while sustained load is how maneuverable the aircraft is?

Japan isn’t making anything, don’t kid yourself. They’re already petitioning Washington for access to US 6th gen programs, with F-3 merely as a fallback to provide ‘leverage’. Yeah, some leverage when you have systematically caved at every turn to date. They’ll bow and take whatever scraps Uncle Sam feeds them. No, Japan is not a viable partner for India.

Thats quite a….. negative outlook. Now the the ATD-X doesn’t make an F-3 but they seem to be going towards one.

why does Korea need PAKFA? to fight China? they don’t have a conflict with China.
China would be better off with North Korea out of the picture and a unified Korean Peninsula with the Americans gone,
China has already threatened sanctions on the North for further nuclear tests.

I think China might make a bargain that they wont interfere but since it was NK that brought the US to Korea the US should leave when NK is no more.

I note that KF-X Block 1 features Radar Absorbing Material while Block 2 features Radar Absorbing Structure. Does that mean the same structure as Block 1 but using materials incorporating radar absorbtion qualities?

Basically RAM means paint while RAS means making the airframe out of fancy materials that reduce RCS like the F-35.

(You know more people would be interested in this thread if SlowMan and Burrito weren’t having a nationalistic e-peen dual)

Interesting.

Do you, or anyone else reading this thread, have another source for that? (I.e. a source that is not a forum posting / blog post)

All that stuff was from a debate where people from different organisations debated on how to proceed with F-X(3) and KF-X. There and people and pictures but your not going to get anything official like a transcription. This is Korea’s next fighter, I’m glad we get even this much info.

Goodbye Tejas.

Do the GE engines ruin everything?