Air Force looks beyond KF-21 toward AI-assisted future

“SACHEON, South Gyeongsang Province — A KF-21 fighter roared down the runway at Sacheon Air Base on Wednesday morning, before climbing into the sky as maintenance crews watched from below. A few hundred meters away, inside Korea Aerospace Industries’ (KAI) final assembly plant, rows of additional KF-21s sat in various stages of production, surrounded by engineers, robotic systems and wiring equipment. The scene reflected not only Korea’s first domestically developed supersonic fighter program, but also the Air Force’s broader effort to prepare for a future increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) and unmanned systems. The Air Force and KAI opened parts of the Sacheon base and production facilities to reporters this week during a media tour centered on the KF-21 Boramae program. While the final assembly line had previously been shown during the rollout ceremony for the first production aircraft in March, the Air Force said this was the first time reporters were allowed to see nearly the entire batch of initial production fighters — around 20 aircraft — assembled toge

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