https://www.mk.co.kr/en/politics/11362334
>With the importance of defense and security emerging in the wake of the war in Ukraine and instability in the Middle East, the South Korean Navy has decided to secure a "drone aircraft carrier" using drones. The Navy's goal is to gain an upper hand in future marine warfare by combining manned/unmanned forces with light aircraft carriers.

>According to Yoo Yong-won, a member of the People's Power, received from the Navy on the 8th, the South Korean military is preparing to organize power organized into three command ships capable of carrying manned/unmanned aircraft, three mobile units under the mobile fleet, and other submarines.

>The command ship, which is the center of power, is one 'Multipurpose Manned and Unmanned Power (MuM-T Carrier)' and the Dokdo and Marado ships, which are large transport ships already operated by the South Korean military. The Navy is preparing to use these three ships as manned/unmanned marine combat groups or manned/unmanned amphibious landing groups according to their duties.

>Among the three command ships, the 'MuM-T Carrier' is a ship that is built by partially changing the existing light aircraft carrier construction project. The light-heavy tonnage (drainage when the ship floats in the water without loading cargo, fuel, and clean water) is expected to be about 30,000 tons, and the cost of building the ship is expected to be in the mid-to-late 2 trillion won.

>The Navy expects the ship to take about 11 years to design and build. The Navy's goal is to secure it by the late 2030s. The plan is to improve the performance of Dokdo and Marado ships, which have already been deployed in practice, so that they can take off and land UAVs.

They are currently developing EMALS as well based on maglev technology.

>>63956930 (OP)

Cool

Interesting. What kind of engine does it use?

>stealth
>external hardpoints
pick one

>>63958497
They're optional you tard

>>63958641
Rude.

They should try developing a technology that increases their birth rate.

Drones should all be banned because Elon Musk likes them

>>63958649
Okay, they're "not mandatory" you retarded faggot

>>63956941
So its about half the weight of a Gripen. An F-5A is 9 tonnes BTW. I like pic related though, implies deck covered in vertol drones.

>>63958828
It's just a tech demonstrator. So the actual plane will be larger >>63956947

>>63958828
This one could have EMALS

Dope thread

MQ-25 on suicide watch

>>63959094
Where's the arresting hook?

>Drone carrier aircraft key specifications:
>Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW): 6 tons or less
>Range: Approximately 482 km (300 nautical miles)
>Payload capacity: 800 kg
>Maximum speed: Mach 0.6 or below
>Size: Similar to L-39 Albatros trainer

>>63956930 (OP)
>EMALS
What a fucking meme

>>63959383
Pretty short range
Light is cheap tho

>>63963085
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're using it as an AWACS

>>63956941
>>63956947
>>63956980
MQ-58 knock off?

>>63958727
>They should try developing a technology that increases their birth rate.

The korean intelligence knows of the existence of a secret project called "work-life balance" but they haven't been able to find out much yet. They are working 80 hours a week to learn more.

>>63963754
Show us a single proof that improving work-life balance increases the birth rate

>>63963995
Unemployed "people" having a shitton of babies.

>>63964361
People don't even get married, let alone reproducing.

>>63956930 (OP)
Mogged by hypersonic

>>63964612
Good thing that marriage isn't a requisite for reproduction.

The Sorks are trying though, the new administrative Capital city they're building/built, Sejong, is aimed at giving people more opportunities to pop out babies, though with not great results as of yet. In a shocking case of retardation, they decided to not include any public transport beyond busses in the city.

>>63963995
It doesn't, there's almost no correlation. Countries with great work-life balances like in Europe have dog shit birth rates

>>63964705
>Sejong
Shit is a potemkin village. Nobody wants to leave the capital area in real.

>>63964716
I'd say its more likely just increased cost of having kids vs payout. Yeah, having 6 of the cunts when you need more farm hands makes sense, less so when it costs a mortgage payment for child care a month.

>>63964361
That correlates more strongly to general low iq traits such as lack of impulse control and faculty for long term planning