The spending is predicted to rise to more than 5 trillion won as the agency plans to develop materials and parts process technology for the engine, which will be used for a revamped version of the KF-21.“Hanwha with aircraft engine parts production know-how and Doosan with power plant gas turbine technology jumped into the homegrown fighter jet engine project,” said a DAPA official.“Korea will have a fully homegrown fighter jet if the development of its own engine is succeeded as other components are locally developed.”AIRCRAFT ENGINE MAKERS’ CLUBOnly six countries – the US, the UK, France, Russia, Ukraine and China – currently have homegrown aircraft engines in the world.
Hanwha, South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s Space X, acquired EDAC Technologies, a US aircraft engine parts maker, for $300 million in 2019, to secure capabilities of rotating parts.“We can produce all steel components for aircraft engines after obtaining rotating part technology,” said a senior official at Hanwha Aerospace USA.“We also secured the US aircraft engine parts manufacturing network of more than 110 companies.”Hanwha plans to increase research staff to over 800 by 2028 from the current 250 to speed up the engine development.
It already secured some core aircraft engine technology, including cooling and coating technology to withstand ultra-high temperatures such as the 1,500 degrees Celsius generated when an engine fires.“A jet fighter engine is similar to a gas turbine, which burns fuels in condensed air to operate turbines for power generation,” said a power plant industry source.
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