Having weapons bays on 5th Gen Jets is important, yes, but they are heavily restricted to what weapons can be carried and have a relatively light loadout. The ability to carry a much heavier weapons load externally is also very important. You would need to build an aircraft the size of an F-111 to be able to match the max weapons load of a F-35, internally.
No one says that you have to do a combat air patrol and destroy enemy ground targets on the same day. You clear the skies first using internal weapons, then you do the bomb trucking with external weapons if necessary.
Did you see my point, that I was trying to figure out what the reason was for building KF-21 with no internal weapons bay?
The 1991 Gulf War is a great example of how to do an Air campaign against a nation with a comprehensive AD Network. Day1-2 you use your LO aircraft and LR missiles to take out Command and Control, that then allows your less stealthy assets to be used as Bomb Trucks from day 2/3+. A similar campaign conducted now would see only internal weapons armed F-22s, F-35s and B-2s as well as LR missiles used on day1-2, then increasingly you would see F-35s with external weapons loads used.
It's funny, it seems like you made my point for me in the first paragraph, then proceeded to say how I'm wrong.
I answered a specific point you made. That was deliberate. I'm not interested in discussing what you're asking.
OK, I wanted to make sure.
You know very little an people here are trying to educate you. There are threads in the Air Force and Aviation forum that specifically cover the F-35 and low observable aircraft.It's funny, it seems like you made my point for me in the first paragraph, then proceeded to say how I'm wrong.
Funny how that works. I maintain (and apparently the Korean government agrees with me) that the internal bay is integral for the KF-21.
You're doing a bit of straw man arguing here. Having an internal bay does not negate carrying weapons externally once air superiority is gained.
You have very little intelligence and you couldn't educate a child. Pointing out that there is an F-35 and low observable aircraft threads doesn't prove a single thing.
Do you have good intelligence ? If you do, you will find on old posts in this threads or open source that KF-21 is not build for 5th gen on this Blk1, but more on 4.5 gen. They are not planning to have weapons bay not until Blk3, where they are transitional to full 5th gen config. This is "if" they decide to go toward 5th gen. At this moment it is still only plan.
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Diminishing share of US weapons. Increasing share of indigenous, & some European, e.g. KEPD 350, A330 MRTT. For example, submarines are local, based on German designs. The latest ones have Korean & European sonars & European-developed ESM, optronic mast, weapons handling, diesels, with local CMS, fuel cells, torpedoes, VLS, & missiles. Their AAW destroyers are mostly US-equipped (AEGIS, SM2, etc.) but have a lot of indigenous kit, & their latest frigates are mostly indigenous & European: MT30 GT + MTU diesels, Leonardo electric motors, etc. I think the guns are American. AFVs & artillery are all indigenous, except some old kit. The air force is the most American, but even that's reducing dependence on the USA.
